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While I wouldn't exactly LOVE the thought of deer or rabbits eating my
lilies, I live in a densely populated part of my city, and the deer don't come in this far (they are very much in evidence on the outskirts of town however). No, the plants were cut on the diagonal with a pruner, so I 'm 99% sure that a human being was responsible..... but I'm grateful for the laughs and the suggestions in this thread........they did leave me with one gorgeous stalk of Casablanca lilies, so I'm not totally bereft. Having said that, I'll probably wake up tomorrow to find it gone. Incidentally, on one of the plants, they also took off with the twine.....LOL "Vox Humana" wrote in message . .. "presley" wrote in message ... As my oriental lilies went into full bloom this week, I tied them up to the stakes next to them to hold the heads up, which were starting to bend under the weight of the blossoms. The very next day, when I went outside to admire them, I saw that someone had come and clipped every stem off - not broken off, like a child would do, but with a pruner, so it was clearly premeditated - probably as they watched me tie the plants up. I was furious, which I think all the gardeners reading this can understand very well. So I'm opening up this thread to get suggestions for revenge.....or at least to allow others to vent if they have had similar experiences. It could have been rabbits. They LOVE my lilies, passing up all else to eat them. |
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Hi Paghat,
I do have a perennial garden in the parking strip and most of the plants there are "pickable" - because I was a kid once, and probably picked more than my share of marigolds on my way home from school out of someone's annual garden. Someone, maybe the same person who clipped my lilies, which are further up in my garden, nowhere near the sidewalk, has previously clipped off particularly choice roses and some of the asiatic lilies I grow in quantity near the sidewalk. "paghat" wrote in message news In article , "presley" wrote: As my oriental lilies went into full bloom this week, I tied them up to the stakes next to them to hold the heads up, which were starting to bend under the weight of the blossoms. The very next day, when I went outside to admire them, I saw that someone had come and clipped every stem off - not broken off, like a child would do, but with a pruner, so it was clearly premeditated - probably as they watched me tie the plants up. I was furious, which I think all the gardeners reading this can understand very well. So I'm opening up this thread to get suggestions for revenge.....or at least to allow others to vent if they have had similar experiences. Dunno how you could get revenge without knowing who dunnit, & dunno if it'd be any fun to be creating a world for oneself where attempting revenge was any kind of priority, out there painting some grotesquely smelling skunky chemical on the stems of the likeliest thefts. This year some passerby took a bouquet of gigantic white irises as soon as they were opened, so I got to aprpeciate them for one day; earlier someone had picked an entire group of fluffy pink & green tulips. This happens rarely enough i try to take it in stride. But the audacity of thieves can be startling. Next door at Sue's, a woman driving by in a van with her children pulled over to the curve, jumped out & ran into the side-yard with a large pair of scissors, & began practically underlimbing a lilac tree to get the nicest blooms. Sue ran out of the house & chased her back to her van, & the thief roared off with a stunned Sue too surprised to even think about taking down the liscense plate -- & what would police do anyway, "Officer, she was picking flowers! Track her down & arrest her!" I've taken to planting by the sidewalk a few things that can stand a little random picking, & I even plant some things with the neighborhood kids in mind, as I think kids SHOULD be able to pick flowers, plus if they can get some easy ones freely on the sidewalk they won't be as tempted to come into the inner gardens & take lilies or irises or whatever I don't want picked. Permissible pickings by the sidewalk are like those little bars of soap in hotels -- everyone wants to steal, & if that need is met by a little bar of soap, maybe they won't take the towels, bedspread, & television. -paghat the ratgirl -- Get your Paghat the Ratgirl T-Shirt he http://www.paghat.com/giftshop.html "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot." -Thomas Jefferson |
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