• Deestan@lemmy.world
    35·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • NicestDicerest@lemmy.world
    36·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 day ago

    Sometimes I pick the chillis at the garden centre and take them home to cook with.

    “But thats actually theft…”

    I DGAF

  • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
    22·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • Redex@lemmy.world
      19·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • Drusas@fedia.io
        3·
        1 day ago

        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.

  • hungryphrog
    16·
    2 days ago

    Fuck you, I’m downloading all the cactuses and orchids I want.

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      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.