Dear Editor. . .
Dear Editor,
I would like to address this letter to the thief who stole my tulips from my front yard. This may seem like a petty issue to some, but in fact, it isn't. Someone willfully came into my yard and very purposefully cut my tulips, my very precious Queen of the Night tulips and took them for their own. The remaining stems and leaves are too neatly trimmed for it to have been an animal. And all of the other tulips on our street are still quite intact. My initial reaction was rage. How dare someone do that? What right have they to come onto private property and steal my precious flowers? I'm sure the perpetrator had no idea how these flowers remind me of a student I worked with who died. I'm sure they had no clue that these flowers are the ones I always look forward to every year for their dramatic color and proud stature. But I wonder that they had no idea that taking flowers from someone else's garden was wrong, just plain wrong.
Yes, they are beautiful. Or, they were beautiful. I can almost see why someone would covet them so. But I would NEVER take anyone's flowers out of their garden without express permission. I am shocked and appalled that someone in our community felt they were entitled to those flowers of mine.
Perhaps you felt you could never afford flowers like that and felt the only way to get them was to take mine. I assure you, they are very inexpensive to grow. The bulb packs are available at Agway for roughly $4-$6 for 10 of the Queen of the Night and about 10 of the pink ones to off-set the darkness of the Queens. If you don't have a yard, they grow very easily in pots indoors or out. Large enough pots are only about $10. The potting soil is about $6, depending on how much you get. I would be even happy to show you how to plant them. If you are the person or even just someone who would like to know how to grow fantastically dramatic tulips, please feel free to ask the editor for my email. I'll be happy to show you.
But please, do not take anyone else's flowers. Not only is it just plain rude, not only is it just plain stealing and trespassing, it is hurtful to the gardener.
Sincerely,
Jodi D. Clark
Brattleboro
I would like to address this letter to the thief who stole my tulips from my front yard. This may seem like a petty issue to some, but in fact, it isn't. Someone willfully came into my yard and very purposefully cut my tulips, my very precious Queen of the Night tulips and took them for their own. The remaining stems and leaves are too neatly trimmed for it to have been an animal. And all of the other tulips on our street are still quite intact. My initial reaction was rage. How dare someone do that? What right have they to come onto private property and steal my precious flowers? I'm sure the perpetrator had no idea how these flowers remind me of a student I worked with who died. I'm sure they had no clue that these flowers are the ones I always look forward to every year for their dramatic color and proud stature. But I wonder that they had no idea that taking flowers from someone else's garden was wrong, just plain wrong.
Yes, they are beautiful. Or, they were beautiful. I can almost see why someone would covet them so. But I would NEVER take anyone's flowers out of their garden without express permission. I am shocked and appalled that someone in our community felt they were entitled to those flowers of mine.
Perhaps you felt you could never afford flowers like that and felt the only way to get them was to take mine. I assure you, they are very inexpensive to grow. The bulb packs are available at Agway for roughly $4-$6 for 10 of the Queen of the Night and about 10 of the pink ones to off-set the darkness of the Queens. If you don't have a yard, they grow very easily in pots indoors or out. Large enough pots are only about $10. The potting soil is about $6, depending on how much you get. I would be even happy to show you how to plant them. If you are the person or even just someone who would like to know how to grow fantastically dramatic tulips, please feel free to ask the editor for my email. I'll be happy to show you.
But please, do not take anyone else's flowers. Not only is it just plain rude, not only is it just plain stealing and trespassing, it is hurtful to the gardener.
Sincerely,
Jodi D. Clark
Brattleboro