Re: Dealing with people picking your flowers
Well Chris,
Right now I do not have any answers for you. I am absolutely dumb-founded over
an incident I just discovered in the garden. I went out to look for my little
pride and joy as I realized I had been missing it this spring. Thought perhaps
another plant had grown over it and hidden the blooms, so was going to move it to
a better location. My surprise when I located the little marker and a perfectly
square hole where my pink double blooming anemonella used to be..... sigh. Someone
had to have take something like a pocket knife and cut the tiny plant out of the
soil. More than likely while we were inside getting drinks ready to serve
them/he/she. First time in 15 years of gardening that I actually know that someone
made off with one of my plants.
Very mixed feeling about the incident. I do not want to mistrust others
because of the act of one (?) individual with a lack of morals... at the very
least a lapse of morals for a few moments..... Sometimes one is tempted to put up
a chain link fence, dig a moat on the outside of that, fill it with big bad
alligators, and put signs up that we specialize in raising dragons........
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher P. Lindsey <lindsey@mallorn.com>
Subject: Dealing with people picking your flowers
> I have a problem that's been plaguing me for a couple of years now,
> but this year it seems to be even worse.
>
> Someone keeps picking my flowers. :(
>
> I've noticed that many of the tulips in my front yard have had their
> flower stalks neatly clipped off, blooming branches disappear from
> my Koreanspice viburnum, and my crocus (why would anyone pick crocus)
> kept disappearing too.
>
> Last year I caught the neighbor's kids picking some and talked to
> them about it, but this year I haven't seen the evil deed in progress.
> The fact is, I'm gone most of the day and don't notice the damage until
> it's too late.
>
> Have any of you had to deal with this kind of thing? What did you do?
> The tulips aren't too bad (although I wish they wouldn't pick half of
> the clump), but I'm worried that they'll start picking the more "special"
> flowers like Trillium, double-flowering Polygonatum, etc...
>
> Help! :)
>
> Chris
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