{"id":1042,"date":"2008-09-22T14:53:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T18:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2010-10-30T18:05:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T22:05:44","slug":"who-said-you-could-pick-my-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2008\/09\/22\/who-said-you-could-pick-my-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Who said you could pick my flowers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>I&#8217;m just seething right now.<\/p>\n<p>I was just coming outside a little while ago to clean up the dog fur at my front porch after a long grooming season with my Labrador Retriever, and as I exited my front door I noticed an older lady practically standing in my planted boulevard pulling away at my sunflowers. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3270\/2726832687_ae220456c8.jpg\" alt=\"sunflower\" width=\"275\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She had a huge bouquet of yellow flowers tucked under her right arm, and with her other arm she was trying to get some of my sunflowers to add to her collection.<\/p>\n<p>She noticed me come outside and she had the gall to turn to me and ask for scissors???<\/p>\n<p>I told her &#8220;No I&#8217;m not going inside for scissors&#8221; &#8211; 1. I was covered in dog hair and wasn&#8217;t about to go inside where my husband had just vacuumed to get a thief something to aid her assault on my plants and 2. I was just stunned that she was hacking and pulling away at my plants right in front of me!<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>She told me she wanted the flower to take to the hospital. Yeah along with the variety of yellow flowers in the bouquet she was carrying &#8211; the flowers that she&#8217;d probably stolen along the way as she walked towards the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>I let her take the flower.  I mean she&#8217;d already ruined the stalk.  But I&#8217;m really ticked off at the nerve she had taking the flower(s) in the first place without even attempting to ask first.<\/p>\n<p>If she hadn&#8217;t had a whole bouquet of what I can only presume were flowers she&#8217;d lifted from other peoples gardens, or if I&#8217;d recognized he as a volunteer at the hospital I might have felt a little differently &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I guess I know now why some of the stalks on a few of the sunflower plants were all hanging down and trampled last week. She&#8217;d probably stolen flowers last week too.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>Just her whole attitude ticked me off. I can picture her walking down my driveway and going into the backyard to pick roses too! Arghh<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even pick my own flowers! Not for myself anyway!<\/p>\n<p>I feel like putting a sign up that says<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>These flowers are for those in the neighborhood to &#8220;look&#8221; at, not to pick!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Should I bother?  Or maybe I should leave some of my dogs droppings right where she&#8217;ll be likely to step in it if she tries to get my flowers again? Ha Ha! ((( yes I&#8217;m feeling evil )))<\/p>\n<p>After she wandered off down the street I went and got my pruners and trimmed the stems and stalks she&#8217;d broken.  I also shortened and thinned out the patch of sunflowers as they were beginning to get tall and were starting to hang out into the roadway.  Remember last year I got a <a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/09\/04\/our-sunflowers-got-us-in-trouble\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">bylaw order to cut my sunflowers down<\/a> to three feet?  Well, they are about four feet tall right now, but look a lot tidier than they did this morning.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d hate to get a bylaw order to cut them down again with only about a month left to enjoy them, well if I can keep the flower thief away that is &#8230;<\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p>The thing that gets me most is that if she&#8217;d asked I probably would have let her take a flower. I would have even helped by cutting it myself.  Heck, after she&#8217;d damaged the plants and I went out to fix the damage there were sunflowers all over the ground. Chris came out to help me put the cut stalks and leaves in a bag and as people walked by us we even gave them some of the sunflowers. So it&#8217;s not like we aren&#8217;t generous with our flowers &#8211; it&#8217;s just the fact that she didn&#8217;t even bother asking and that she damaged the plants. 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