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[Cinnamon]

Is it illegal to pick wild flowers?

I have a niggle that I have heard it is somewhere,& would really love to know for sure.

 

There is the most gorgeous huge patch of Snowdrops just over the road from my office window & people keep picking them,which I think is wrong.They should be there for all to enjoy,not on someones windowsill just for them to appreciate.

 

I have a vested interest in them too as they came from my garden originally. When we first extended we had to dig foundations & I rescued the bulbs & popped them over the road to be safe,where now,15 years later,they have flourished into a lovely big white patch

[Couperwife]

I dont know for sure, but Ive found ***this***

 

why dont you put a sign on a wooden board that says something along the lines of

 

"please dont pick these wild flowers, please leave them for everyone to admire, we cant see them in your kitchen"

 

some people might ignore it, but the majority I think would just leave them.

 

hope this is helpful (I love snowdrops )

 

cathy

x

[Cooks]

I believe your right yes, thats what I have always been told.

[Old Speckled Hen]

Technically theft as all land belongs to somebody. It is illegal to uproot wild flowers anywhere though but not, alas, to pick them.

[Chucky Mama]

I thought that it was the taking up of the root or bulb that was a no no.

[Cinnamon]

Technically theft as all land belongs to somebody. It is illegal to uproot wild flowers anywhere though but not, alas, to pick them.

 

 

Ah yes,that sounds familiar.

When i was a very small child we lived in a woods that was smothered in Bluebells

So we picked them as they were ours,but any bulbs that came up,as the woodland floor was so soft,we had to poke back in.

 

I will continue to guard 'my' Snowdrops & defend them from the hands of the many tourists who come to the village at the weekends

[Charlottechicken]

It's a bit selfish!

 

My mother was on a bus one day and saw two ladies helping themselves to the just flowering daffodils the council plant on many of their odd patches of land. They weren't just taking a few, they had bucketfuls of them

 

I used to have daffs in pots in the front garden until a neighbour had some of hers picked around Mother's Day

[bigmommasally]

A couple of years ago me and OH were picking dandelions (tortoise food) by the edge of a wood and we got stopped by a park ranger who threatened to fine us £1000 He let us off in the end but we weren't allowed to take the dandelions we had already picked.

[MedusA]

My understanding is that in general you can pick the flowers, but not dig up the plant/root/bulb, but that in protected areas (such as an SSSI) you can't even pick them.

[Saronne]

A couple of years ago me and OH were picking dandelions (tortoise food) by the edge of a wood and we got stopped by a park ranger who threatened to fine us £1000 He let us off in the end but we weren't allowed to take the dandelions we had already picked.

 

 

That's outrageous! Sounds like a jobsworth park ranger..

 

 

Saronne x

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

Why not email Natural England and ask?

 

http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/enjoying/countrysidecode/protectplants.aspx

[Chucky Mama]

I saw someone picking snowdrops yesterday - very annoying, there was only a small patch of them.

[Guest]

I thought it was completely illegal to remove pick etc wild flowers but is the snowdrop a wild flower?. There are a lot of theft of ie bluebells and snowdrops so if the landowner objected then yes it is theft.

 

But how can anyone even think of picking them..seems a right cheek as they are removing what is meant to be enjoyable for everyone...can understand your frustrations

 

Can you put a sneaky little notice up?? or go and tell them off??

 

indie

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

How about giving the stems a little rub with chicken poo?!

[The Dogmother]

It is selfish, and I think it's also illegal, but would need to check.

 

'Leave nothing but footprints and take away nothing but memories'

 

Would be good on your sign.

[Wantchooks]

Unfortunately..... you can pick or pluck fruit, flowers, foliage or fungi GROWING WILD on ANY land as long as your intention when you pick them is not for commercial gain.

 

Not uproot, dig up, sever large shrubs etc.

 

Has to be growing wild and not planted.

 

So any WI members out there who have raided the hedgerows for their blackberry jam to sell....beware

[Lesley]

So any WI members out there who have raided the hedgerows for their blackberry jam to sell....beware

 

They've got to catch you first