Re: Dealing with people picking your flowers

This subject makes me think it's confession time.

I still remember being 8 years old and lying on my face in our neighbor's
garden, smelling the hyacinths--then picking one and taking it home.

My neighbor was not happy, of course. I can't remember if it was him or
his wife who explained to me that if I left the flower on the stalk, it
would live longer and I could come over and smell it any time, and other
people could too. It was an arrangement we both could live with :-).

That was probably the beginning of my experience with flowers in gardens
and of course I grow my own hyacinths now. You might have a budding
gardener to deal with, Chris. Perhaps you could offer to teach or at
least allow the culprit to spend time with the flowers, knowing of course
who to blame if any are missing. :-)

                                                Marya

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