I live in a block of flats where we don't have any personal outside area. All the external area is communal. This is the main aspect I dislike about living here. I like the area and I like the size of the flat's rooms (it doesn't quite fit in to apartment title!). I miss having my own garden to potter in. I like everything else about it (except of course the way people handle their rubbish and recycling - why can't people be as perfect as me?!) So I have a small number of largish pots on the front communal verandah. I did have something small stolen when I first moved here a few years ago, but nothing since then.
I've been nurturing a fuchsia that I've grown from a cutting into a standard specimen. I have to admit to being rather proud of it. Well I noticed this morning that it was gone!! That and a pot of aloe vera that I also had. Now the fuchsia was not something you could pick up with one hand and walk nonchalantly off with. It was in a fairly large pot and was becoming a reasonable size tree (not the one pictured - mine was a pale pink and white one).
I could start again with another one, they're easy enough to grow from a cutting - but why? It is not only the loss of time and dedication in getting it to the shape it was, but there is the practicality of the pot and potting mix which I don't feel like risking again.
It's a bugger. I just hope it's gone to a home where it will be cared for and appreciated. One day, I'll have my own little plot of land again.
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I feel sorry for you, someone got some really cheap gifts, without realizing you spend so much time nurturing it.
Plants on our galeries are bolted to the wall or they are plastic.
This would piss me off too. Whoever it was is an arsehole. Just remember the law of Karma will prevail and as someone said to me once, after someone stole a Buddha from my garden, let's just hope they needed it more than you did
By the way, I'm pretty militant when it comes to rubbish and recycling too (and it beats me why others aren't so perfect!)
Hope you're enjoying your weekend
Yes, I'm with Nash...karma...hopefully, they'll put the pot on a window sill where it will fall off and knock some sense into them! That really sucks, after having put all the work into it and then someone else gets to enjoy it! HOpefully, you're weekend hasn't been too ruined by it! Hugs!
Jeez! What kind of person steals a pot plant?
Hi Campbell,
How bloody awful that someone stole your fuchsia and aloe vera. After you’ve watered, fertilized and pruned a plant or shrub for any length of time, it’s very easy to “bond” with it and having that ripped off is similar to losing a friendship that you’ve been nurturing for ages. You wonder whether someone really coveted your greenery or if it was malicious thievery and the plants wound up in a dumpster. Maybe you should put a poison oak or poison ivy bush outside your door for the next unsuspecting robber…..that’d be justice!
Do you have enough light inside your flat to maintain a few house plants? That might give you the satisfaction of keeping your hands in the soil without the fear of someone stealing them right from under you.
What can one say that has not already. I totally agree with Nash as I am a firm believer in Karma aas well and believe that it all happens for a reason.
The thief either needed it for themselves, or needed to give it too someone who did. If not then karma will come up behind them and poke them where it hurts.
Hugs
Thanks everyone. I'll try to do the karma thing and the 'they needed it more than me'. My neighbour who had pots on another verandah also had some stolen. She too is Pissed Off!!!!!!!
Someone had a good shopping expedition.
Hey Campbell... sorry to hear about your plants. Its the dedication and love that has gone into them that these f7ckers have stolen. A few years ago when I lived at my previous place, someone came and stole two camelia bushes in heavy pots. Then we had to chain everything.. including the geraniums.. its wasnt the plant.. the pots were damned expensive.. well it was the plant too as one was a gift from an Aussie girlfriend.. and she moved back... and some twat stole my daily reminder of her. People... like the others said .. KARMA. Have a peaceful week. x
Campbell,
I've come to the realisation that I'm giving up a lot of outisde space (home North of London has some land) and I DO love sitting in the sun and "pottering" in the garden (though sometime's it's a chose). I'll be buying 2 apartments (one in The North and one in London) and it looks like I'll be lucky to have a balcony!
I'm gonna miss my outside space but I guess that's part of the deal with what I'm doing with my life - I think I'll need to set my self some medium/long term goals (like you have "one day I'll have my own plot of land again" - guess you gave up the family home also?).
GIL
PS. I also believe in Karma (you reap what you sow) - the thief will ultimately be rewarded.
Hi Cam
re your comment on Gil's blog. My wife is 6 years younger and reflects on my immaturity !!! :)
By the way I was wondering how old is you son and what does he know etc. ?
cheers Tom
Cuteguy, I have thought about chaining the pots, but I like to be able to move them around and I reckon having to chain pots looks sad - which of course it is!
GIL - yeah, I gave up the family home also. What you're going through is a bugger in terms of losses. Sure there is a sense of liberation and freedom in what you're doing in terms of being able to be more openly yourself, but there are losses too and they are real and you should allow yourself to grieve them. x
Tom - glad you got the email.
That is horrible. I hope the bad karma comes back to the theif(ves).
You really must be pissed off about that plant, you havent posted for a week!
My thoughts exactly DUP... we don't know anything about what is happening in Campbell's life....
I know that gripes your ass.
May subterranean termites emerge from the pot and invade and devalue their property: a pox upon them.
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