A more relevant question... has anyone ever heard of a case of someone being prosecuted for it?
No?
Crack on!
Oh yes, right, good point. If you're not going to get caught you may as well steal whatever you want and who cares if in doing so you destroy the thing you're stealing? You've got enough, right? So to hell with everyone else.
The rather wonderful (and clearly barmy) elder growing bloke on GW last night said that taking more than 30% of the flowers from an elder will weaken and can kill the tree.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
A more relevant question... has anyone ever heard of a case of someone being prosecuted for it?
No?
Crack on!
Surely the whole point of having a law is to show that it's wrong and thereby prevent folk from committing the act ... it doesn't always work ... the law against murder being a case in point ... but in this case it appears to be working fairly well.
Loved the Elder Chap ... my sort of bloke
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If I can get away with it, then its fine. Elephant poaching, anyone? So many crimes against nature are committed on this basis. We are supposed to be the guardians of this planet, using our intelligence to protect it.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
They should have planted them with the snowdrops head first.
Note the picture of the Abbey ruin with white flowers in foreground...aren't they of snowflakes?
When I was little we lived in a cottage on a lane with a bank opposite covered in primroses. We came home one day to find someone had picked them all. I kid you not. Someone later said they had driven past and seen a car parked in front of our house with a family out there picking flowers, as the car parked right in front of the house, they naturally assumed it was visitors.
Yes they're snowflakes ... you really can't expect Archant newspapers to use a photo of the snowdrops can you, not when they've already got hundreds of them on their website
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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No?
Crack on!
The rather wonderful (and clearly barmy) elder growing bloke on GW last night said that taking more than 30% of the flowers from an elder will weaken and can kill the tree.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Plant Life, which is a great small charity, is trying to record plant thefts and get them taken seriously, here:
https://www.plantlife.org.uk/uk/our-work/campaigning-change/plant-theft-a-growing-concern
Elephant poaching, anyone?
So many crimes against nature are committed on this basis.
We are supposed to be the guardians of this planet, using our intelligence to protect it.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Note the picture of the Abbey ruin with white flowers in foreground...aren't they of snowflakes?
When I was little we lived in a cottage on a lane with a bank opposite covered in primroses.
We came home one day to find someone had picked them all. I kid you not.
Someone later said they had driven past and seen a car parked in front of our house with a family out there picking flowers, as the car parked right in front of the house, they naturally assumed it was visitors.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.