"Muddymike" wrote ...
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"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.

Sounds like an ideal place for growing some Seakale!


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...

I've seen a lot of drivers throwing stuff out of vehicles lately, shows a
dreadful and selfish attitude to the rest of us.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK