Neighbour’s kid picked my daffodils

It not super sweet to steal. It's super selfish.

Yep. This is how we end up not being able to have nice things at all. If people can’t have flowers in their gardens without them getting nicked they just won’t bother to plant them.

I remember a few years ago, two little girls in the village near us going door to door selling daffodils they'd picked from other people's gardens so not 'super sweet' at all!
Children need to learn to respect other people's property and the OP needs to feel confident her tulips won't be next so it's good that messaging the Mum and the resulting peace offering seem to have worked.

Picking one in MY garden is not forgivable, especially as she had all oof her mother’s daffodils from which to choose.

She’s 8, not a toddler.

Thanks I am a joy. And my children (now adults) would not have dreamed of going into someone's garden and stripping the flowers from it.
Before you think otherwise, I would not be shouting, raging or starting a war. Not my style. I would be expressing my disappointment/sadness about my garden though. But in a polite measured way. And then it's up to the parents.
And I wouldn't reward the child with more daffodils.

Exactly. Otherwise how far do we take that logic? If someone steals the ops car should she have to buy them one too because they don't have one and it would make them happy 🥴.

Ridiculous. The child's mother should buy them not the victim of the theft.

I did this as a child, they were growing along a verge... my mum went mad, she was mortified 😂

This reminds me of an incident a couple of years ago. Near where I live next to the road there is a small hill shielding the houses behind from the busy road. It has trees and shrubbery and each spring daffodils grow. I always love to see them. I was crossing the road to see a young woman about 19 or 20 with a Tupperware box picking the heads off! I told her those were for everyone to enjoy and not for her to just pick the heads off depriving us all of seeing them.

Yes, I’m afraid I don’t buy this idea that she didn’t know. If she had no notion it was wrong, she’d have picked the ones in her own garden.

Very much so, understandably annoyed but maybe they were to be a surprise, 8 is young, and I think deserves a one time pass to not have so much hate on her on the understanding it doesn't happen again.

Well, there must have been some limits, because she somehow knew not to take any of the daffodils growing in her own garden. Apparently that would be wrong, whereas it's fine to take all of the daffodils in a neighbour's garden! 🙄

Exactly! She shouldn’t be trespassing and they’re not hers to pick! This isn’t cute just annoying!

More useful would be an explanation that the girl should only have picked the flowers in her own garden.

Lordy! All this hullabaloo over some cheapo daffodils, honestly, I hate them, but kids should know that whilst picking one is forgivable - cleaning an entire front garden out is clearly the work of a monster. Thin line though, I’ve not seen how many OP planted, maybe it was only a handful and therefore proportionally unacceptable. I don’t mind kids picking flowers from my gardens, but I grow lots, so have more to lose.

An 8 year old little girl wants flowers - yes, I'm happy to go the huge expense of £1 whilst also talking to the parent to ask that she doesn't take from the garden again. I'd rather resolve and keep relations, as annoying as it would be to not have them for a season I couldn't be bothered to get that worked up over it thinking a child should be punished over something which probably comes from a place of innocence. You sound a joy.

Hopefully not in someone else's garden? On the verge side maybe. In someone else's garden shows no limits set by parents.

Even wild flowers aren’t ours to take, let alone out of someone’s garden.
while the sentiment was sweet, I imagine the mum will be mortified when she realizes her child has nicked them from a garden.

The child's own garden is full of daffodils. Presumably her own parents know the pleasure of gardening.

See, this makes me so furious. All OP asks is that she is allowed to enjoy the garden she puts work into, and there are people in this thread who think she should forego even that lest a child’s fleeting desires be disappointed. My lovely partner puts so much love and dedication into our garden and would be heartbroken to find it decimated like this. Just the thought of it makes me so sad. I can’t think of another situation where tearing up someone’s hard work would be met with such a blasé attitude.

So you would reward an 8yo who has stripped your garden, by buying them some more daffs apart from from the ones they pinched?
Then go home, and look out your lounge window at your front garden that has no flowers
Yeah... ok

Because giving the little girl some bulbs to grow, teaches generosity, neighbourliness and the pleasure of gardening in one low-cost gesture. And because when adults can understand children's mistakes and guide them, life gets better.

I agree. @Pineapplecolada1 your son sounds like a good 'un 🙂.

I'd say that the annoyance is exacerbated by the fact that the 8 yr old took every single daffodil from the OP's garden in spite of the fact that there are daffodils in her mother's own garden.

The vitriol against a little girl on this thread is astonishing. I'd have bought a £1 bunch from the supermarket and given them to the family politely requesting they don't take from the garden but enjoy those instead....point made and no one is on a rampage.