What are your thoughts on taking cuttings from plants that are not yours?
1. Would you take a cutting from a plant at Home Depot without buying that plant?
2. Would you take a cutting from a very common plant on the grounds of a fast food chain without asking someone?
3. Would you take cutting from a plant at a public park?
For what it's worth, here are my answers:
1. This is the one instance of the three that I absolutely would not do. This feels like it would definitely be stealing.
2. I think a lot of people will say that you absolutely should not take a cutting from private property without asking, and honestly they are 100% correct. However, I have to admit I have done this. In my area, every single business seems to have 10-20 knockout rose bushes. I feel like if I asked someone in the Subway/McDonald's/etc. they wouldn't even know what I was talking about and wouldn't care. I know the argument could be made that if everyone did this, their plants would be decimated. But the reality is, very, very few people actually do this. Now, I wouldn't take hundreds of cuttings and profit from it or something crazy like that. In the instance that I did this, I took 3 cuttings off a rose bush at Subway.
3. I would definitely do this, but I don't recall a time that I ever actually did. Again, I would not take a large quantity such that I could harm the plant or even the plant's appearance.
I know the easy thing to say is that you would never do any of these, but be honest. We're all friends here.
