General Discussion & Chat: Plants theft, 1 by Weezingreens

Weezingreens wrote:
Dinu, we are a small community here in Seward, Alaska, so we never have problems with people digging up trees or shrubs, but we do experience vandalism or unwitting plant abuse here. This is a tourist town, so each summer flower baskets and planters line the streets. Our local barber has a wonderful display of flowers in front of his shop. It's his gift to the community. Ordinarily, everyone, including the tourists respect his little garden, but sometimes they pull up plants out of the planters or pluck the flowers.


We can grow lovely somniferum poppies here, but I have heard from several people in town that these have been stolen. I guess the thieves have hopes of utilizing the pods as a narcotic, but there is far more pleasure in the beauty of the flower than the harvested pods. Stolen plants rob everyone in the community of the pleasure one gets viewing a beautiful garden.