Stealing from your neighbours

My plant theft horror story: No horror, but plenty of head scratching. I
lived in a third floor walkup apartment, and the second floor stairwell
window was perfect for haworthias. So I asked the second floor neighbor
(who was crazy gorgeous, so any excuse to start a conversation! :D) if it
was ok with her, and I kept my small collection of H. venosa ssp tessellata
on the windowsill. One day, one of the pots was just gone. I house-sat for
her regularly, so it wasn't her or her teenaged daughter... That leaves one
of her or her daughter's friends (without getting into a story, I just
can't see either of those), or even less likely some stranger from the
street who checked out the stairwell and said "hey! I need one of those!"
Even more of a head-scratcher, the only one they took was the old-timey
horticultural form which I only kept because I'd had it since I was 19.
They were all labeled, so it had by far the least sexy label, as well.

"I'll just help myself to one of these...hm, that locality data is
off-putting, let's just start with the basic form commonly seen in the
trade, see how I do..." ???

- Dave

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Fred Biasella <
fbiasella@watertownsavings.com> wrote:

Well, that's just rude!!! If I had a "friend" who did that to me, I would
offer them them a nice (exlax) chocolate pie to take home and enjoy. :-)

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Subject: Re: [pbs] Stealing from your neighbours

I have to agree with this. I had many plants stolen when I lived in the
city. Even in the country, a "friend" from Ohio came for a visit and
absconded with a small clump of named snowdrops that would have been well
over $100 on the open market. He commented about them and I offered to
divide them the next spring. He stayed the day while I went to work. Upon
returning home, one of the multi-bulb clumps had vanished. He tried to
obscure the hole with extra soil and a bit of leaf litter. ("Do you really
think I don't count them???" I thought to myself.) Needless to say, the
"friend" will never return, nor is he welcome in any of the gardens in the
region.

Michael
Interlaken NY Z6

Have the courtesy to ask someone if you want a piece of something, as I am
certain you want others to have the courtesy in your own garden.

Yes, I know I am being prim and proper, but I've had stuff stolen
from my garden and it changes how you feel about it. The plants I
had stolen were actually put into my driveway so that people could
enjoy them when walking by, as I thought the colour would be lovely
and that far more people than just me could enjoy the show. I have
never put any pots there since of course, as I don't want to lose them.

Sorry, rant over, but I felt that someone had to lay it out pretty
plainly. Please don't shoot the messenger....

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