Are you a seed thief?

I'm GOL, (giggling out loud) as that trim and dead head sounds like two rock bands.
Picture this if you will, Ladies and Germ-man, for your listening pleasure tonight we're featuring The Trim and the newest group to cluster on the pay dirt, THE DEADHEADS!!!
The Elephant Ears will not play this set, they'll be featured next week along with The Climbin' Clematis, Country Coleus, and Salvia in Song! The Performing Pansies and Petunias are playin' Paris and will not perform here until later this year. They will share billing with the Fading Flower Perennials for a little while.
The UBERS, of course will post their review on the Newbie News.

HAHAHHAAHA

I only wish I could find a weed thief. they can take all of them. I'll look the other way, I promise. (LOL)

If you find him, can I borrow him to get rid of the mare tails and stinging nettles? They're a pain in the, ehhh, you know where!

LOL and send him here for the dandelions and thistles...

chickweed and centipede grass! Signing up for weed-thievery:-)

galinsoga.
Though i haven't seen any yet this year.

I'll sign up too, the crab grass invades EVERY year.

Hey, I AM a weed thief! A lot of those "weeds"--chickweed, dandelions, nettles, horsetail, more--are terrific food and medicine. I sometimes ask people if I can have the weeds in their yards, provided they haven't used chemicals.

I'm an herbalist, and we're talking some of my favorite herb plants here.

Needless to say, some "weeds' are a prominent feature in places in my gardens.

As far as taking seeds and cuttings. I have no qualms about that, never have, except for occasionally at a special garden or someplace like that.

I don't see what harm it can do to take a few seeds or a small cutting. I've even dug up small suckers on one or two occasions. But I would never take a whole plant. That is so rude and selfish!

If I want a bit of something I see if I can get it without harming the plant or the place.

I think you can see a few weeds in this pic. It's a garden I care for, with the owner's happy inclusion of a moderate amount of "good" weeds.

What a pity there's so much water in between us!

I know, Tuinkabouter! I saw your nettles and thought too bad you're so far away, I'd come get 'em!

Absolutely! I have dead headed many a flower plant in my days, after all dead heading is doing the flower a favor isn't it? :)

I have made clippings of odd bushes etc. with some positve results, I now have lovely Forsythia in my back and numberous flowers from the seeds. I am now on a quest to rescue wildflowers, but I will not disturb the plants I will only collect the seeds.
The only ones I might dig up are the Lambs ear that will be burned off by the fire department as part of their weed and bug control behind my home.

I have some very lovely native asters that volunteered here last year and I left them alone. They were so pretty and very drought tolerant. I also keep a large "nursery" pot on my patio all year for odd cuttings that I root.

Plant gal iris,
I am called the medicine woman around here, I am not very experienced but I too go around looking for weeds. Today I had a lovely salad with dandelions and wild onions, I couldn't find anything else wild to put in. Spring is just now springing up here and i am sure to find many more goodies in the woods behind my house. I am afraid to try the mushrooms here, I like living.

Instead of stealing, I call it 'liberating' them. They like a change of scenery also, eh?

Y'all are merely propagating the species so they don't go extinct, lol!

I am, I was and I will be...

If you are able to obtain seeds from others plants there is nothing wrong in that Obviously they were not going to plant them or the would not be available, BUT, taking snippers for cuttings is a slightly different story, that is not right. Also na na nana, my brother is the head Horticulist at Disney in Orlando and he has just returned from Hong Kong where Disney is opening another site, and he was there for a year determining which bugs eat the others to keep the nasty pesticide application down. He has been employed with Disney since 1984, and my sister worked the grounds at Disney for 7 years until the old back gave out.

So your brother, the Disney horticulturalist, is he married or what? (LOL)
My husband would not like to see this question on the web, good thing he's only a relunctant gardener, he'll never look here.
So, this brother of yours, the one who travels for pleasure and disguises it as biz, doesn't he need a Pen Pal? Better yet, is he a seed thief? Does he share?
And if he is a seed thief, and he shares, does that make you a seed thief once removed? (LOL)
I sure hope he's writing articles for DG, he's got tons of knowledge.

I like Epcot, but, there stuff never has seeds...

yeah but you have to admire the 6ft plus tall eggplant trees they have there lol