Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Taking flowers from our front garden.
We have a rather splendid and quite prolific lilac bush in our front garden. My partner caught one of our neighbours from across the road helping us keep it under control by taking a few flowers for their house. Am I wrong to feel outraged? Has anyone else had this problem?
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Permalink Reply by Tina on
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Consider yourself lucky , we had a plant dug up and taken from our front garden ! We also have beautiful roses that my grandad planted that people love to smell as they walk past , we often see people try to pull them off , I bang in the window and scream at them. It’s out of order .
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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I think it depends what they take and how much.
A bit of sage nipped from the overhanging bush has never bothered me but as soon as it involves stepping into the garden without permission, no. I once found a granny in the front harvesting my mint while her embarrassed grown up grandchildren tried to reason with her. Thing is, if she’d asked me for some I’d probably have said yes.
I will never forgive the thieves who clipped all my alliums or the ones who took the heads off some giant sunflowers. You wait and wait, caring for the plants, and then some swine whips them away as soon as they flower. Outrage doesn’t adequately cover my feelings about that!
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Permalink Reply by michaela rourke on
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Caught my neigbour chopping bits off my bay tree once... And plant pots and window boxes stolen... Infuriating.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Ah the Lilac thieves ... for 2 weeks a year all reason leaves their gentrified souls. Someone recently popped around in their car, stopped, got out, walked up to the Lilac with secateurs, chopped off a piece, popped back into their getaway car and speed off! ... now doing community service at Railway Fields :)
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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I once caught an old lady who lived a few doors up the road nicking my tomatoes. I genuinely felt sorry for her to be reduced to this at her age, she looked so shocked and and ashamed when she realised she'd been nabbed. I told her she can come back and help herself but I never did see her again.
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Permalink Reply by Lisa on
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We have passion flowers at the front of our house. I enjoy watching people try to eat the fruit, then realize it's a horrible woolly thing
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Permalink Reply by Madeline on
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I used to have a small flowerbed at the front. Every year without fail, all the flowering daffodils, tulips etc, would disappear at the same time.... Mothers Day.
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Permalink Reply by Ian on
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Even if someone does not mind people taking a few overhanging fruits from their garden its still stealing.
Teach the children when they are young that all such behaviour is called stealing. The argument that I am only taking one holds no water. If others do the same the tree will be bare, its STEALING. IF it is in someone elses land it is stealing. TEACH your children not to steal. Don't steal yourself by not paying taxes or paying the wrong amount etc. Do not steal yourself and teach your kids not to steal. Its however more difficult than that. Big moral issues in society.
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