"Plants are routinely snatched from our garden by florists and landscapers." What's wrong with people?!
There is little to no social contract here. Anti-social behavior abound, and practically nobody does anything to combat it.
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#12"Plants are routinely snatched from our garden by florists and landscapers." What's wrong with people?!
Though I wonder where the line is: obviously uprooting a whole plant is wrong, but is there a point in the size of a plant where one can take a cutting (or seed pod when/if it bolts into seed) to root/seed yourself?
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#13"Plants are routinely snatched from our garden by florists and landscapers." What's wrong with people?!
San Francisco is a heck of a place, that's the nicest way I can put it.
As much as I agree with the issues of SF, people snatching plants from gardens that don't belong to them is sadly not an unique phenomenon to SF.
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#14"Plants are routinely snatched from our garden by florists and landscapers." What's wrong with people?!
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which... depending on the fertilizing and amount of it, might be beneficial for the plants. And better for the public good than a totally impermeable surface.
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#16"Plants are routinely snatched from our garden by florists and landscapers." What's wrong with people?!
Though I wonder where the line is: obviously uprooting a whole plant is wrong, but is there a point in the size of a plant where one can take a cutting (or seed pod when/if it bolts into seed) to root/seed yourself?
Removing any amount of living tissue from someone else's plant, without their permission, is wrong. It's ridiculous to think it's ok. Buy your own, and cut it up.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
San Francisco is a heck of a place, that's the nicest way I can put it.
As much as I agree with the issues of SF, people snatching plants from gardens that don't belong to them is sadly not an unique phenomenon to SF.
My mother in law lost her potted plants from her front port, and then her furniture, in Texas. Shitty people live everywhere.
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#18Hi Neighbor! I walk by your garden a few times a week and always enjoy it. I also have long been curious what the history behind the oddly shaped building was. Thank you for the blog post and for making the neighborhood a lovely place to live!
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#19Hi Neighbor! I walk by your garden a few times a week and always enjoy it. I also have long been curious what the history behind the oddly shaped building was. Thank you for the blog post and for making the neighborhood a lovely place to live!
It's technically a butterfly roof.
When the building was built in early 1880s Harrison was a major railroad line. The front of the building, as far as I can tell from contemporaneous surveys, was occupied by a small grocery with a shopkeeper's apartment in the back.
One theory is that the butterfly was used to accomplish a false front (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_false_front_architectu...) that was common in the West for commercial buildings.
Another is that the roof was used to channel rainwater into a single downspout that could be easily captured.
Either way, it is unusual. Butterflies didn't really emerge in the US until the mid-century modern movement in Southern California and then they were mostly style.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Though I wonder where the line is: obviously uprooting a whole plant is wrong, but is there a point in the size of a plant where one can take a cutting (or seed pod when/if it bolts into seed) to root/seed yourself?
Removing any amount of living tissue from someone else's plant, without their permission, is wrong. It's ridiculous to think it's ok. Buy your own, and cut it up.
As another wrinkle, it's public property.
I may or may not have eaten mulberries from a tree that sits on a public property boulevard...