Strangest place you collected seed or taken cutting from

I am always looking for good spots to get new cuttings, I like parking lots and office buildings. I generally try to go for the ones that are usually manacured but are over due. I guess I feel giuilty about takeing cuttings but they are going to be trimmed anyway. last year I took cutting from a car dealers lot that had moved out and is still vacant ;>{ )
Dave

The drive through at Burger King... used a water bottle and got a gob of Jasmine. LOL

lol.. Thats great

Anyplace I pay taxes for is fair game for seeds.City Hall,Court House,Fire House,Schools,Parks, and my favorite the Police Station.Now that's your tax dollars at work.Edge

LOL I love it. I can see the defense in front of the judge. Good one
I think My wife had a corinary when I told her about the cutting I took one our way out of a house we were looking at to possibly buy.

She probably doesn't know the half of it, heh!

Check out the plants at cemetaries - they have a variety of perennials and annuals in ours. The hanging baskets are always needing 'pruning', which only makes them grow bushier, so go for it!!! The rose bushes are always getting a trimming in the cemetary where Gary was laid to rest - old roses as well as modern ones, and some gorgeous fragrant ones. I love to stroll through a cemetary with my clippers and wet paper towels!

HA!

Kay: you collection spot is deadly .... lol ... I couldn't resist

I just escaped a nursing home where I was in rehab after broken bones. I told the staff to please bring me any plants they saw in the trash. That got me an ivy leaved geraneum and 2 gerbera daisies. People throw them out when they quit blooming. My daughter works in a hospital and I've begged her to bring me discarded plants but she refuses.

I used to be in the real estate business and kept shears and a shovel handy for opportunities at vacant houses I visited or bought. They were distressed properties and the plants were unloved.

I also take small cuttings from things hanging over fences by sidewalks. I liberated some lantana and purple heart from the utility office. I've also gotten some goodies from trash heaps put out by the street. I guess I'm shameless.

You Good Samaritan, you! Why, it brings a tear to my eye....

Hi everyone: well my niece and i made a mid day run to some lots the state has bought,moved the houses off and planted sod on them. We managed to get several cannas,daylilies, iris, Varigated vinca major 3 kinds of liriope. 2 huge garbage bags full. I ran through 3 cubic feet of potting soil.

When my Father died one of the flower arrangements sent to the family had several twigs of Curly Willow. Others were taking a flower as a memento I took the Willow. They all sprouted and I had trees to share with brother and sister.

I went to a formal banquet last Fall. There were beautiful stalks of seed pods in the flower arrangements, some "accidentally fell" in my pocket. I still haven't planted them, I keep hoping I'll find out what they are first. LOL

Betty

Betty: got a picture of the seed pods? discription ofthe plants? anything to help.
Sorry for the being abit off tomight weather had me in severe pain. low back with soinal stenosis. AQny way I may be able to lod3te it tomorow.
Dave