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Daffs
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:29 pm
by MartDude
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:37 pm
by BikerGran
It's almost unbelievable that any mother would not know that the daffodils in the park are not for picking - almost! But tbh there are so many ignorant people out there that it's almost believable too!
It's certainly right that the police should be called to explain to these parents that their children shouldn't pick the daffs - in this day and age if the councillor had approached the mum himself he would probably have laid himself open to a charge of causing harassment alarm and distress!
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:33 pm
by D-Rider
BikerGran wrote:It's almost unbelievable that any mother would not know that the daffodils in the park are not for picking - almost! But tbh there are so many ignorant people out there that it's almost believable too!
It's certainly right that the police should be called to explain to these parents that their children shouldn't pick the daffs - in this day and age if the councillor had approached the mum himself he would probably have laid himself open to a charge of causing harassment alarm and distress!
Couldn't agree more BG
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:48 pm
by Kwackerz
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/guywa ... daffodils/
I liked the Telegraph's take on it.
The Mail's online headline was as usual, a complete crock of shit.
'The daffodil police: Officers swoop on three little girls picking flowers in park'
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:06 am
by ligloo
BikerGran wrote:It's almost unbelievable that any mother would not know that the daffodils in the park are not for picking - almost! But tbh there are so many ignorant people out there that it's almost believable too!
Call me ignorant then... I didn't know daffs were a forbidden flower, although kiddo never picks them in a park, just mine, which I give her grief about! same difference though, I'm obv ignorant
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:08 am
by Samray
Thought that was a given.
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:22 am
by D-Rider
Samray wrote:Thought that was a given.
I thought they spelled it Govan - which is part of the EU
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:24 am
by Kwackerz
Theyre not forbidden as such, not like Bluebells or whatever they are, just when the council have planted them theyre protected as they belong to the council.. or the ones outside my front window that I planted..
http://www.wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Menu ... tected.htm
The list above are the pukka protected ones.
