Is it strange to ask for cuttings from someone else's garden?

[Sheeny98]

Hi all!

This is a topic I'd appreciate some advice on, it's not something I can ask my own family members (the few I have left) as it may upset them.

Basically, my late great grandmother's house was sold a while ago. I spent a lot of time with her, and used to help her in her garden, which she was very proud of. I have very precious memories of making perfume from the rose petals, and helping her weed and maintain her beautiful flowers.

I have recently bought my own first home, with a large garden in the same village. I would really love to have something from her garden to plant in my own, (most of it remains unchanged) but I'm not sure if I'm being too sentimental, and the act of actually chapping on someone's door that I do not know to take cuttings from the garden may be really strange.

I could also be told straight up no by them, which would be quite upsetting, and if that happened I'd probably wish I'd never have bothered so I didn't have any sad memories there.

Has anyone here ever had a similar thing?

if you don’t ask, you don’t get !!
definitely worth a try.

it was the other way round with me.
there’s an old lady in town who’s uncle used to live in my house. her garden was getting overgrown and so she just gave me a whole bunch of plants from her garden to put into mine. she felt that way , they were being kept in the family 😂 it was a case of ‘ this plant has never done anything, here, you have it’ well, she unknowingly gave me some really nice plants like tamarisk and lonicera fragramissia 😀

I'd allow you cuttings!
As others have said, send a note explaining what you said above - the sentimental attachment and the fact that you now live in the same village. (Don't mention specific plants in case they have grubbed them out and now feel embarrassed!)
I would be quite interested to meet someone from an old village family and learn some history. If you can, take along some photos to show them their house in Ye Olde Days.

OP some you may be able to have by division and soon will be a perfect time for that, and you'll get proper plants and flowers this year.

My garden is full of plants that came from my parents house, and my in laws. One of the reasons I'd hesitate to move.

Def drop a card.

Did you do it in the end OP? Just wondering how it ended up