vurbil said:taking a cutting which does no harm to the health of the plant and does no harm to others' enjoyment of the plant
vurbil said:I didn't ask who you would ask permission because I'm unaware of the caretaker's phone number lol. I asked it as a hypothetical question to make the point that the caretaker doesn't own the park. The community owns the park. The caretaker is just someone we hired to maintain it.
greene said:This conversation is going downhill. If the OP wants to steal cuttings and has no qualms, even though it is illegal, let's not keep up this chit-chat.
No means no. We learn that while we are at our mother's knee.
Public parks allow public access but they do not belong to the public.
Our local botanical gardens (2) have plant sales regularly so people can purchase plants rather than steal them. It is the right thing to do. It is the honest thing to do.
I will leave y'all to finish this discussion.
RoseBlush1 said:
Are you certain the caretaker is someone hired to take care of the park ?
This is not necessarily true in today's economy. Many public parks would not exist if it were not for the volunteers who donate their time, labor and expertise to maintain the park. There are not enough public funds to cover all of the demands for funding and parks are often on the bottom of the list.
Unfortunately, there are never enough volunteers for many parks, so the plantings must be less diversified than they used to be in the past.
I have volunteered in a public rose garden and spent hours taking care of roses that have become quite rare because they are no longer in commerce. It was heartbreaking to see a fine plant whittled away by one person taking a cutting here, and then another person taking a cutting there, and more people taking more cuttings. Each person thought, "I am only taking a little piece of the rose, I am not taking the whole plant."
We actually had to relocate some of the roses so that they could be saved. To me, that was so incredibly sad because that meant that most people would never see the rose growing in person. They would only see photos of the rose.