"®óñ© © ²°¹°" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:22:47 +0100, "Muddymike"
wrote:

...has picked the daffodils I planted on the roadside verge
outside our garden wall!!! There were about ten flowers there
yesterday morning when I went out, none when I returned in the
afternoon.

I do sympathise and it's all very annoying, but if you planted
bulbs
on a strip of public property, the strip of land does not
become yours
surely, and probably the flowers either, come to that

And some Councils would give you a rollicking for interfering
with
their maintenance of their property and have you restore it to
its
previous condition, on pain of death!

Of course, if you do own the verge right up to the tarmac, you
do have
a grievance. You must get Scotland Yard involved.

I neither know nor care who owns the strip of grass beyond my
wall. I do know that for about a third of its length nothing will
grow due to it being on the outside of a bend in the road, the
first bend on route from the council salt depot. This bit gets
overdosed with salt every winter as great clumps of the stuff
fall from the spreaders.

The council do cut the grass occasionally, but not as often as I
strim it to stop untidy tufts growing up against the base of the
wall. I also periodically walk up and pick out the crisp packets
that someone keeps stuffing in between the stones, probably the
same person that throws empty drink cans and bottles over the
wall. One day I will be out there when one comes flying over...

Mike