Someone stole my tulips! I can not believe that someone would walk up to the front of my house and cut all of my flowers.
You dumbass motherfucker, you didn’t even cut the stems long enough. If you would have asked, I would have given you some, but you had to go and cut every single flower in my front garden. It’s so disappointing. Tulips only get one flower in the spring, and now I only have stems.
For crying out loud, what makes a person think “Gee those are pretty, I sure would like them. I’m going to take them. After all, I don’t suppose the person that actually planted them would want those pretty things.”
Cut my roses, take some blue bonnets (oh that’s right you did, and broke the fuck out of the plant) I don’t give a shit about those flowers, I get plenty per plant, but you had to cut my tulips.
I know this is a week rant, but I feel like crying. Last year, all of my tulips were killed in an ice storm, and this year they were stunning. I was really enjoying watching them bloom because I plant a mixed bag, and didn’t know what color they were until they bloom.
If someone indeed stole your flowers, I have nothing but sympathy for you. I’m a gardener too, and I would cheerfully share the fruits of my labors. However - the fact that they left the stems, making the flowers they took useless to them, makes me think you’ve got critters, and not people-type thieves. I lose a pretty fair number of tulips every year to some critter or another, and the reason I know it’s not people stealing them is that my tulips are in a fenced-in enclosure that people can’t get into from the street.
I was going to say the same thing. I have a shepherd’s hook with pots of flowers hanging in them, and they get mowed down by deer every year. It’s aggravating!
They were definitely cut. They only left themselves about an eight inch stem, so I’m left with greenery. I suppose when you’re stealing something, then you aren’t very careful about the particulars. Especially since my dogs were probably barking their fool heads off.
I also know they were cut, as they so kindly lost one in the shrubs, so I have a bud vase with a sum total of one tulip.
I bet it’s critters. Squirrels ate my dad’s tulips too. The next year he set traps. Live traps, so he could drown the beast himself. Disgusting behaviour, in my opinion, but he LOVES those tulips.
Jerks! I really feel for you, light strand. Flower thieving is rampant where I live as well. I’ve given up planning on the street side of the house. There’s a gorgeous iris patch not far from me that has a sign asking people not to cut the flowers. You’d think in a civilized world it wouldn’t be necessary.
Some years back, I had the same thing happen to the tulips in the front of my house, but not the ones along the side. It wasn’t critters - the stems were cut cleanly. So maddening.
Unless they were the neatest squirrels in history, then the only critters who did this were of the human kind. The cuts were all consistent, and clean and there was no stripping down the stem. Also, I had several of the same colors, and they only took three of the five of that color and none of the tulips that were either budded out and were fading, or not yet open. The blue bonnets were closer to the house and behind a small tree and only the large blossoms were cut. But apparently they stepped on the plant breaking it.