A warning, or instructions?
Yes
My grandfather, he had a big garden with lots of plants, had been banned from most of the garden stores within a 20 mile radius of his home because he was known to pick leaves of the plants and make saplings out of them.
When he was 76, we had to pick him up from a local police station, since he insulted the officers whilst picking saplings and being caught for driving without a seatbelt.
I miss him.
People picking leaves off plants and damaging them is clearly shitty, and I can see why they would prevent "no it fell off by itself honest" as an excuse.
Theft is when you use your own labor to foster the natural resources that grow on this planet and don't give the pwner class their cut.
I mean, in their defense, the only reason you can pick them up is because they're selling them. It's not free for them to keep the plants and staff there. If you can find the leaves somewhere else then that's fine, but if you can't find that plant anywhere but the store then you're effectively using a service they're offering without paying.
Sure it's not worth the full price of the plant, but it's worth something.
Yeah, go ahead and do this somewhere like Home Depot, but most garden centers and nurseries are just small businesses. They need that income and lose a lot more money from this practice than one would expect (plants can get pretty expensive).
Like, there's this rhododendron garden + nursery near me which has some truly amazing varieties. Things that you can only get there or in Bhutan, for example. They actually send people to these remote places to find rare varieties. Would I love to take a tiny cutting from basically everything there? Absolutely. But no. I pay because they're amazing and I want to support them.
The pwner class.
Nice.
Fuck you, I'm downloading all the cactuses and orchids I want.
Well I wasn't going to until I read that sign.
Maybe don't sell plants for like $15 that can easily be grown off some shit on the ground for free
Picking up trash is a crime now?
I imagine staff regularly pick then up themselves to private either for the garden itself or for the garden to sell.
So if guests "steal" them, it's likely the garden then gets less funding overall.
Lmao just because I've read this I will do it, and if I ever hear anyone complaining about this I will do it again
Try to prosecute that, bitch!
Sometimes I pick the chillis at the garden centre and take them home to cook with.
"But thats actually theft..."I DGAF
