To think that taking daffodils from a road border for your mum on mothers day is really scummy?

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Once again while out on Mother's day morning I've seen a car parked up at a roadside border with the people next to it cutting down the daffodils. Which in my opinion is stealing. One year I saw people outside the local hospice doing this!
These aren't wild flowers. Someone has paid to plant those bulbs to make the road look nice.
If you want cheap flowers for your mum for mother's day then plant your own bulbs the year before!
Surely people don't think this is acceptable behaviour?

I saw somebody stealing flowers from a grave a few weeks ago. DH 'had a word' and was told to go away and do something biologically impossible. Nice.

That's way worse. Stealing flowers from a grave is so disrespectful as well as thieving. Ugh.

zukiecat - really?? We have a real problem round here with people picking bluebells - a species that is under serious pressure. If everyone just picks "a few", there won't be any left at all.

My mother once got into serious trouble for picking roadside daffodils. We were on our way to an Easter bonnet competition when she saw the verge covered in daffs... only a man who lived there came racing out of his house to tell her off. Fair cop.

We didn't win anyway but little sister and I did get our pictures in the local paper with the Mayor.

My DH proposed doing this with DS for me(communal private garden rather than roadside, but still..). I put a stop to it pronto. Wtf is wrong with him?!

I have planted daffodils in the verges on my road (part of a community project) and they look lovely. They are coming to the end of their flowering now and I wouldn't mind if someone wanted to cut some before they die off.

In fact I am going to cut some for myself tomorrow!!! Is it stealing if I planted 'em?!!

I have let my kids pick daffs before (1 each) when they are there in abundance eg the local wood.

We don't pick bluebells as they are endangered here, daffodils are not.

I don't personally think that's bad. We certainly don't give them away as gifts!!

my kids have always known they can only pick daisies and dandelions in parks etc

anything else is just plain wrong (unless its your own garden)

it makes me so sad when we go to the bluebell woods and see handfuls of flowers discarded on the car park

kids as young as 2 can understand that the flowers need to be left so they can grow more seeds for next year, or for birds and insects to eat etc

It really doesn't take much of a thought to realise that if everyone picked daffodils there would be none left

Strange name Sorry. You don't sound sorry at all. You think stolen flowers help you remember your MIL? I am struggling to understand how?

Did you have to post the same "poor me message" on every thread about daffodils?

Why have you resurrected this thread to tell us this?

Trolling is getting odder and odder.

Scummy? Really?
I think you need to look the meaning up.
It's a little odd, but "scummy". No.

When I moved in 12 years ago I panted daffodil bulbs on the grass verge outside my house and every year some fucker picks them!!
If I see them I will be doing more than taking photos !! ( I won't I'm a wimp)
The few they are left usually get flattened by next doors dog

Planted !

It is so selfish and scummy. Honestly, I'd cut their hands off.

Somebody wants attention.

Zombie thread!

Indeed - a zombie thread. Of all the flowers you can buy, daffs are some of the cheapest. You can buy a bunch for a pound. Better to do that in your mother's memory than steal. Taking flowers from verges is low.