Our new plants, that we just dug up, hauled over to our house, removed all the mulch for, and planted are…gone! I came home from lunch today to see they were almost all taken! I was so upset. Some of the plants were left though. They were mainly the plants that we had had there before or that we had just got at the store and still had the price tag hanging from them. Therefore, all signs point to the neighbor who abandoned her property or else wouldn’t a random person have taken all of them and not been so selective?

This is all that’s left!

Argh. I really don’t know what to do! She probably assumed that we just stole her plants and so she was going to steal them back. Or she thought maybe that we had something to do with her getting the ticket about the noxious weeds even though we were just as surprised.

It is so weird though. They were there this morning, then they were gone at 2pm when I stopped by home after a lunch meeting. I asked all our neighbors and they didn’t see anything. Our roommate was home but just hanging out in the basement so didn’t see anything.

What would you do? Write a letter to her? Post a note on her house saying that we received permission to take the plants because they would have otherwise been mowed down? Post a “No Trespassing” sign on our yard?

All that hard work! And she lives in a rental where she can’t really do all that gardening, so what will happen to all those plants?

We could just leave it be and forget about it, or try and fill it with more plants from our backyard and greenhouse. Or just buy some more (I don’t think we’ll take any more from that yard -let them mow it for all I care now!). It’s weird because if she had wanted the plants, she could have just dug them up from her old yard. There are still plenty of plants! But I think she was sending us a message. I kept asking Britton if he thought she would be upset and he said, “She could care less. She has moved on and that is not her house anymore.” Well, that doesn’t seem to be the case.  I think she might have been the one to turn us in to the city for our chickens as well…neighbor drama.