Hmmmm. Makes me feel a bit protective towards *my* gardens...:-) Years ago I had a garden visitor who practically boasted about her (well-known in the rock garden society chapter) proclivity for liberating things that her host failed to provide on demad. I had to tell her that if I ever caught her doing that I would have to ask her to leave, and would never invite her back. Ellen On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Cynthia Mueller <cynthiasbulbs@hotmail.com > wrote: > Years ago I used to make my children snatch bits of likely plants that > were "sticking out" of a yard. We would drive to wherever there was a > likely candidate, and I would tell them that "they won't arrest > children...." and "no one will notice a tiny bit missing".... They would > sink down in the car seat and whine, "no - please - not again!" Sometimes > I would pass an interesting plant for even several years, saying to myself > that I should try to get a start - and suddenly it would be gone, a victim > of homeowner disapproval or a bulldozer. So this is a good deed we're > doing, as long as the original can spare some of its parts. -Cynthia W > Mueller > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- Ellen Hornig 212 Grafton St Shrewsbury MA 01545 508-925-5147