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Originally Posted by Shadeflower
really doesn't surprise me JScott but it isn't right. My boss caught his neighbour stealing his garden gnome.
I mean cmon a gnome? An well cared for orchid on the other hand can be quite tricky to find in shops.
I've resigned to not buying crappy plants anymore so finding a good specimen can actually be a challenge. But you'd have to ask if they would know how to care for it properly if they are the light fingered type or if they would just throw it in the trash after it bloomed which would make me more mad thinking that would be the outcome.
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See, I'm with you there too on the quality plants. I don't buy cheap grocery stores orchids anymore (not that there's anything wrong with that. Those inexpensive plants are a great way to cut your teeth for growing orchids, and if you see one you like, absolutely get it, and feel no shame. You should feel free to enjoy the things you like).
I'm a teacher, and I like to keep a blooming orchid on my desk at school, but sometimes I don't have a plant that is in bloom that is the right size to place on my desk, in which case I might buy a grocery store Phal. I usually let them bloom twice. If by the second bloom, I'm not wowed by it, I give it away, but I have acquired a few that way that I ended up really loving and keeping). So any plant stolen from me is likely to be a difficult one to find, one that is highly awarded, which translates to ones that are expensive, and so what really burned me about it was that one, they'll probably going to kill this special plant of mine, and two, I'm probably not going to be able to replace it, or if I do, I'll pay a premium price.
It really is a truly despicable kind of person that would steal a plant off somebody's front porch.
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