I'd be fuming. It's simple good manners to ask and most gardeners will happily say yes and even help as long as it's not a plant that will suffer form being pruned at the wrong time or when it's the wrong period of the year for cuttings.
He's got a bloody cheek.
Since they are, indirectly, your babies, maybe take delight in telling him why nothing grows well for him and show him how and then quietly suggest he have the courtesy to ask in future. How would he feel if you wandered into his house and took some of his curtains or furniture or ornaments? Same thing.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I asked myself, if I came home to find people in my garden snipping off bits of my plants, how would I feel? Beyond irritated, yes. I think bits of a hedge or other plants poking over a fence or wall might be fair game, possibly, but not actually in my garden.
Installing CCTV, reporting the neighbour to
the police … are these suggestions for a comedy sketch about over-reacting?
Of course, the neighbour was incredibly rude
to take a cutting without asking and there’s every reason to be annoyed with
his behaviour, but please don’t follow any of the over-the-top suggestions.
The best outcome is one where you remain on
speaking terms with your neighbours, but he knows you are not happy with his
actions. Perhaps you should let him know that you are annoyed about it and see
what he says.
I’m totally with Ruby on this. I’d be bloody annoyed but, as far as we know, it was a one-off incident several years ago. Can you imagine what the police would say if you told them someone snipped a piece of your plant in 2012? It would not be the lead story on Crime Watch, would it?
😂😂😂 Sorry I find this quite funny at the nerve your neighbour has! to outright tell you he took cuttings from your plants. He's got balls! However if I was you at the point of him telling me he took cuttings I would have said something to his face. Something along the lines of... "Sorry you came into MY garden and took cuttings of MY plants, are you f***ing serious! How would you feel if I did the same to you?" I would also have the balls to go into his garden and take cuttings from his friggin plants. Grow them bigger and better and then tell him "Oh this is a cutting from your garden... look how much healthier mine looks!!" 😋
If it were me, next time I saw him I'd say, 'oh, by the way, next time you want something from my garden please would you ask as the thought of anyone coming in when I'm not around makes me feel very uncomfortable'.
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He's got a bloody cheek.
Since they are, indirectly, your babies, maybe take delight in telling him why nothing grows well for him and show him how and then quietly suggest he have the courtesy to ask in future. How would he feel if you wandered into his house and took some of his curtains or furniture or ornaments? Same thing.
What did he expect you to actually say when he told you??!
Why are some people the way they are??
Next thing, he will come into your house, and take your tele.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Installing CCTV, reporting the neighbour to the police … are these suggestions for a comedy sketch about over-reacting?
Of course, the neighbour was incredibly rude to take a cutting without asking and there’s every reason to be annoyed with his behaviour, but please don’t follow any of the over-the-top suggestions.
The best outcome is one where you remain on speaking terms with your neighbours, but he knows you are not happy with his actions. Perhaps you should let him know that you are annoyed about it and see what he says.
However if I was you at the point of him telling me he took cuttings I would have said something to his face. Something along the lines of... "Sorry you came into MY garden and took cuttings of MY plants, are you f***ing serious! How would you feel if I did the same to you?"
I would also have the balls to go into his garden and take cuttings from his friggin plants. Grow them bigger and better and then tell him "Oh this is a cutting from your garden... look how much healthier mine looks!!" 😋