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Posted: Jul/15/2009 10:53 AM PST
I went to the bank yesterday to pay my car payment and out front of the bank was the most wonderful garden with lots of tresures i wish i had a snip of. I ask a few of the ladys if it would be ok if i took a tiny piece of a couple of the larger bushes and no one seems to think it was a bad idea . But i felt strange just taking the clippings in broad daylight so i waited till after hours and came back and took a few starts of a a couple flowering bushes and a tuft of a ortimental grass that was pink and lovly. I brought my loot home and hubby never question where they came from but i know i robed the bank of some real nice treasures. I suppose im not the first to bring home a stray clipping but it seemed weird because of they lived at a bank. 
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Posted: Jul/15/2009 12:47 PM PST
lol, you so cute!  i feel weird about taking clippings too. mom thinks the clippings you "steal" are the best plants. 
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Posted: Jul/15/2009 12:53 PM PST
My last house was landscaped almost totally from "borrowed" plants. Most locations were vacant properties, and the plants were asking for someone to love them. After 25 years, that was alot of stolen treasures! So when we moved, I took starts from many of these. They all said thank you. |
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Posted: Jul/15/2009 1:46 PM PST
Hahahahahaha! The last time I admitted on here that I had "snitched" a piece to root, I was reprimanded (all in fun, of course). Since then I just keep it to myself. Do you reckon we'll find ourselves on People's Court explaining where our plants came from? |
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Posted: Jul/15/2009 2:02 PM PST
nope lissa asked first. 2create took care of abused plants, the owners are lucky 2create didn't report them. & mom only "borrows" (thanks 2create ) from people she knows. & we are sticking to our story till the end! 
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Posted: Jul/15/2009 5:19 PM PST
LOL, just this week I rescued some poor little strays from the old hospital that was shut down and has sat vacant for the past 2 years...and from the gas station that was being demolished near here. Mostly, I do ask somebody, but this time I figured, the poor things had just been abandoned! Most of my landscaping plants come are free too, either from neighbors, swaps online, or strays that show up under fencelines or 'follow' me home. |
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Posted: Jul/15/2009 9:24 PM PST
I just say that "it followed me home". LOL
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Posted: Jul/16/2009 2:22 AM PST
Oh! you didn't clip the Bank as much as they have clipped you over the years, Just think every time you look at the those beautiful plants , Let's name them, what about calling them your "Jessie James Plants", "Stimulus Plants", "Withdraw Plants" or "Transfer Plants" when you show them off or tell others of Your five finger discounts or the hold up (Bank robbery) of yours, Hee Hee, Later Guilt Trip |
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Posted: Jul/16/2009 4:56 AM PST
I think of many of mine as symbols of neighborliness--so many were given to me for the asking (I offered many a time to swap for them and was told 'Oh honey, just help yourself!'). It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to see them bloom and know what a nice little community I live in. 
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Posted: Jul/16/2009 6:43 PM PST
Well at least im not the only one with plants fallowing me home! My husband said we are running out of places to put my new plants but we have 120ft of privacy fence we just put up that has NOTHING growing next to it but grass that is a crime far greater then robbing the bank for a few clippings. It seem every day i see something new that i just must have a clipping of for my garden. Oh well he has his toys and i have mine. Thats my story and im sticking to it.
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