Neighbour’s kid picked my daffodils

Least the mum tried to make amends with dropping off a pot to you

Super sweet...rubbish.🙄

This has got to be one of the most ridiculous responses to this I have read. It certainly would not have filled my neighbours with joy to see us children in the estate picking their gardens bare when I was a child. We knew well not to be picking things from other people's gardens. My grandfather (who would be over 100 if alive today so from a very different generation) was a keen gardener and was always telling off us grandchildren not to pull the heads off his begonias. We knew we dare not touch them. I short I don't think those of us that think the girl should not have done this are the ones that have changed. It is those who think this is sweet and lovely and that the OP should pay for the bulbs, tend to them only to provide joy for others, the child and her mother, instead of getting weeks of enjoyment out of them herself.

No, taking every single one is really rude

Says it all...just teach kids to respect other people and their property.

What's the solution when folk have been repeatedly asked not to crush the plants, though?

My dad finally solved his problem by erecting a 7 ft Frankenstein chickenwire and whatever else he could find in the shed between his garden and the next door neighbour's.

The next door neighbour's son had ambitions to play for Rangers, but only seemed to be capable of kicking balls over the original 3 ft fence. Their own garden was a hymn to gravel, concrete and orange wood. The finishing touch was the clothes line pole painted silver and edged in orange, with a Union Flag flying from it.

The ball problem isn't too bad round my way - I have more bother with dog walker intruding and then gallumphing their way through the garden to find small balls belong to their dogs.

If it's a football, I generally just put it on top of the hedge so that the owner can collect it. The one time that damage was done, I'm fairly certain that my neighbour's idiot adult sons were guilty - I had to replace a greenhouse pane.

😆😆😆. No, they haven’t. I don’t have anger issues. But I won’t stand for people taking the piss out of me and stealing of damaging my property.

This is what man traps were invented for!

Seriously, the child's parents need to be told that their child trespasses on your property and stole flowers.

It has happened a few times in our local park, parents just standing there while their kids decapitate the daffodils. Heaven help anyone who points out that the flowers are there for all to enjoy. Of course very little ones do not understand this concept but this is the opportunity to teach them a basic life lesson

I agree op. We’re lucky to have a gorgeous small wooded area in the middle of our estate & I make it clear to my kid & her friends that they don’t pick the daffodils.

it drives me mad when I see parents letting their kids pick flowers. Same parents that let their kids chase ducks/birds in the park.

I would ask her parents to tell the kid not to do it again.

A young girl in our street kept picking my mums flowers then just crushing or throwing them around. My mum told her off gently and she then pulled up one plant and threw it with the dirt onto my mums step. My mum had to go to the door and her mother was so apologetic. She later brought the wee girl round with some sweets and made her apologise.

Wouldn't live in Fife either!

This municipal garden in Fife was looted.

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-courier-advertiser-fife-edition/20220628/281522229774373

You sound lovely.

@Growlybear83 I expect others have made you aware of your anger issues in other areas of your life.

God I couldn't live in London. Never happened to anyone I know in Manchester.

I'm furious on your behalf. Horrible.

A few years ago I noticed a small child picking the heads off the daffs in my front garden. I went out and asked the Mum to ask her child to stop doing it. She replied that the child was only young but I replied that she wasn't and would she please ask the child to stop. She huffed a bit, muttered something about not planting stuff where kids could get hold of it and walked off.

The next morning the head of every daff had been picked off and thrown it the garden. I cried.

What the hell is wrong with people?

It doesn’t matter if they’re on grass verges. I have verges full of them and they’re not fair game for people to pick.

Sorry for going off course but forgot to add @DontWheeshtMe , your gif was pure 🥰🥰.

Sorry @Lucylooloo2 but they will grow next year. Reminds me of when I was 6 or 7, I picked all the daffs from our front garden and went round all the neighbours trying to sell them, I wanted the money to buy my mum a Mother's Day present. My mum was so upset but I didn't get it at the time.

"Already being loved" ???

How about "Those flowers belong to someone else. We don't take what belongs to others. That's thievery."

Causing them "upset" is what helps them to remember.

If they'd had the guts to show their faces, in the OP's place I would have given that child a lecture she would never forget. We all have had it with entitled "gentle parenting" that produces children oblivious that others even exist, let alone must be considered.

They don't listen to mere words. Take it from me.

Just like balls in the yard. "Hey, please don't kick balls over, they crush my plants." Repeatedly ignored. "Your ball? Oh, I did find a ball in my yard. It's not mine so I stabbed it and put it in the bin. That is what I do from now on." Problem solved.

If she thought the daffodils were “just like buttercups”, why didn’t she pick the ones growing in her own garden?