Picking daffodils ìn public places

I am from a Yorkshire village and the daffodils are absolutely beautiful and to be admired. Don't get me wrong I have only witnessed that 1 particular time ( when 2 people were picking them ) but 2 people picking them or 20 or 200, it makes no difference, its wrong and as others gave said, its illegal.

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Booths were giving shoppers bunches of daffs as they left the other week. I never pick them in our garden because I appreciate the effort they must put in to grow. I’m in the north east and they grow on a north facing bank.

Yes some place children’s rights to enjoy And some have no problem with digging up roots in the countryside for their own gardens

TerriBull

They're only a £1 a bunch in most supermarkets, it's not nice to pick them in public places where they're there for everyone to enjoy.

Precisely my thoughts....

This article from The Lady.

lady.co.uk/think-twice-picking-those-daffodils

How one puts a stop to misbehaviour is another matter.

Where children are involved, some parents and grandparents place the children's right to enjoyment above warnings, rules and laws.

The village where I live has a large duckpond but the birds often look bloated and ill. Bread is the cause, of course. Despite prominent parish council signs all around the pond asking people not to feed bread to the ducks, there are usually several families with small children doing so. They can't all be illiterate.

The bread that isn't eaten, rots and causes blue algae to form on the water which is dangerous even fatal to animals.

Quote Freya5 Sun 31-Mar-24 11:43:01
Theft plain and simple.

Picking snowdrops from a roadside is stealing from the council? I do mean picking not digging up

Theft plain and simple.

People had armfuls of daffodils they had picked in our local park. On commenting on this, I was accused of being a snowflake as they were wild. Er, no😡

Daisies, Buttercups, BlueBells, Cowslips, Violets

I used to pick cowslips and violets as a child, but not many so as to leave plenty to seed around. It wasn’t illegal then.

Oh dear! I'm feeling very guilty!!!I distinctly remember when I was a student walking (rolling?) home from an evening in the student's bar, passing through the park and doing my bit for flower power by picking some!

Mea culpa,mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

It's Infuriating.

I'm near Ullswater and, as with much of the Lakes, we're lucky to have fabulous amounts of daffs growing here, there and everywhere

I've not seen anyone picking them but if I did I would be furious.

This is hardly a new thing, I remember being warned off doing this at school back in the 60s. There always have been and always will be selfish types who spare no thought for anyone else and encourage their children to do the same. I was aghast last week when all the daffs in a local playground had been pulled up and thrown on the ground, they didn't even take them home to put in a jar. What goes through people's heads that makes them want to do ? I find it very sad.

Being naive, how did it all used to work decades ago? Before it was illegal?
Were there so many more back then? People took less perhaps?

I lived near a solicitor who was very embarrassed when I caught him digging up cowslips on the roadside. He had the most amazing display of them in his garden …

Germanshepherdsmum Sun 31-Mar-24 11:11:56
It’s still illegal, Annie.

Illegal to make daisy chains,

it doesn’t matter too much as long as not everyone does it

Oh, that’s ok then. If everyone thought that….

It’s still illegal, Annie.

Picking flowers in parks is wrong, in the countryside it has always been done

I ticked off ( nicely) a, child recently, for picking daffodils in a park.

I was a lot madder some time ago, to see a small child in Kew Gardens, deliberately trampling over a gorgeous mass of scillas. The parents said and did nothing, and I still regret keeping my mouth shut.

From seed? It takes about five or six years for a daffodil grown from seed to bloom.

Wild daffodils are smaller

There are wild daffodils in the woods. I used to know the difference - are they smaller?
I understand how daffs multiply, but there are single daffodils on the side of the road, how do they get there?

Planting bulbs in the countryside, nature ?

There’s a grass bank outside my house absolutely covered in daffodils. Every few years I plant more bulbs out there. Last Spring I was staggered to see a very well dressed woman with a small child picking them. They had picked a large bunch. I went out and told her they were there for everybody to enjoy and she threw them on the ground and flounced off!