More of a blather-let

[firecat]

snippy also asked me:

Should I keep trying with my plants, or resign myself to theft?

(For background, see her post on the subject.)

If someone repeatedly stole my plants, I'm sure I'd give up eventually, or plant poison ivy; but from this distance I find myself thinking "Someone who steals plants must really need them. Maybe I will continue to provide them with plants and consider it a sort of spiritual gift to the universe, a declaration of my faith that everything is connected and therefore what does a plant-stealer good also does me good."

Comments

[snippy]

I'm afraid the karmic lesson here looks to me like "if I invest myself in something important to me, it gets taken away." It's very discouraging.

The thing is, I can't afford to keep putting new plants in that bed. The first time around I spent over $150 between plants and soil and fertilizer, and that's not including the money I paid to have the bed cleaned out (after I tried and exhausted myself for very little cleared space). The replacement plants were about $10. I can do that a couple of times, but not if it were to happen every other weekend.

I have stopped caring, which makes me sad. I don't go look to see what's blooming--I'm afraid more plants will be missing and I can't afford to be emotionally invested and then experience more loss.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid the karmic lesson here looks to me like "if I invest myself in something important to me, it gets taken away." It's very discouraging.

I'm so sorry. I've had several plants dug up--a lavender plant I had for several years, several different kinds of lantana, some bluebonnets. But I suspect animals, not humans. In the front, now, I only have salvia (there's some pink salvia, I think; mine is all red) and cannas, because those will grow. I'm thinking of buying some more veronica for groundcover, so I won't have to mow around the salvia, but haven't gotten to it yet.

I love gardening, and I'm sorry you're having such a bad experience.