Secateur happy neighbour

[happypalms]

I live on a hundred acre community with ten neighbours. We all chip in and do a bit of maintenance around the property. So I thought I might plant a few plants at the front gate near the letterbox. And for the life of me i cannot understand why one neighbour who shall remain nameless, continues to maul  and devastate the plants with a pair of scissors, thank goodness he doesn’t own a chainsaw. It’s just blatant vandalism in my opinion. What possesses a person to cut perfectly good leaves of healthy plants! 

[Jonathan]

Go snip a bit of his hair off Richard, he might get the idea.

Or maybe a finger...make it harder to use the secateurs!

[happypalms]

27 minutes ago, Jonathan said:

Go snip a bit of his hair off Richard, he might get the idea.

Or maybe a finger...make it harder to use the secateurs!

It could be worse I suppose, imagine him with a chainsaw! 

[gyuseppe]

1 hour ago, Jonathan said:

Go snip a bit of his hair off Richard, he might get the idea.

Or maybe a finger...make it harder to use the secateurs!

Jonathan, I'm amazed at you!
Cutting hair, yes, but cutting off a finger, no.

 

[gyuseppe]

2 hours ago, happypalms said:

I live on a hundred acre community with ten neighbours. We all chip in and do a bit of maintenance around the property. So I thought I might plant a few plants at the front gate near the letterbox. And for the life of me i cannot understand why one neighbour who shall remain nameless, continues to maul  and devastate the plants with a pair of scissors, thank goodness he doesn’t own a chainsaw. It’s just blatant vandalism in my opinion. What possesses a person to cut perfectly good leaves of healthy plants! 

Richard 2 is the way things are, either he wants to be in charge
or he thinks cutting leaves is good for the plants.

[tarnado]

hmmm. "Community."

[Jonathan]

7 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

Jonathan, I'm amazed at you!
Cutting hair, yes, but cutting off a finger, no.

 

You're right Giuseppe...its probably a bit extreme.

I'll stick to growing palms and leave the law enforcement to others!

[happypalms]

10 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

Jonathan, I'm amazed at you!
Cutting hair, yes, but cutting off a finger, no.

 

Cmon gyuseppe it’s a palm mafia thing, you swimming with fishes, and if you don’t share your palm seeds they cut your finger off in Tasmania @Jonathan and that’s getting a good treatment on a good day, Ive heard of stories of what they do in Tasmania, they are very uncivilised in Tasmania must be the cold weather that does it. 

[happypalms]

2 hours ago, Jonathan said:

You're right Giuseppe...its probably a bit extreme.

I'll stick to growing palms and leave the law enforcement to others!

You know the palm mafia code @Jonathan well, lucky he doesn’t wake with a dead Bismarckia next to him. Dont let Jonathan’s soft ways fool you @gyuseppe he’s a mean palm killing machine, he threatens all his palms daily with I will turn the refrigerator up if you don’t grow! And while where on the subject of palm mafia let’s drag the boss into it @palmtreesforpleasure 

[happypalms]

6 hours ago, tarnado said:

hmmm. "Community."

You said it community, not only that he goes and lights a bushfire and goes to the pub for a drink, meanwhile we are fighting his fire so it doesn’t burn down our houses, while he gets drunk, give him community service more like it! 

[happypalms]

10 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard 2 is the way things are, either he wants to be in charge
or he thinks cutting leaves is good for the plants.

I think you’re right he wants to be in charge, well charge him with being a plant vandal! 

[Harry’s Palms]

Yea that would be frustrating . It sounds like discussing the situation is not productive . Communal living can be great and it sounds like you folks have plenty of personal space to call your own and you may have to just just let this person do their thing . Good luck , Harry

[JohnAndSancho]

A secataur? Isn't that one of those things with the horse body and a man's torso? I bet they'd make terrible neighbors. 

[happypalms]

59 minutes ago, JohnAndSancho said:

A secataur? Isn't that one of those things with the horse body and a man's torso? I bet they'd make terrible neighbors. 

Depending on what era you live. Although Medusa had the right idea, so did Hercules! 

[happypalms]

2 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Yea that would be frustrating . It sounds like discussing the situation is not productive . Communal living can be great and it sounds like you folks have plenty of personal space to call your own and you may have to just just let this person do their thing . Good luck , Harry

That’s the idea of it, you’re only going to upset the apple cart, just to keep the peace and whole idea of community living, I suggest we stick with the idea of a utopian society where palms are everywhere and the temperature never drops below 18 degrees Celsius. In other words peace love and happiness and we can all get groovy! 
Richard 

[Jonathan]

6 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

A secataur? Isn't that one of those things with the horse body and a man's torso? I bet they'd make terrible neighbors. 

Or is that a non sequitur?

[happypalms]

1 hour ago, Jonathan said:

Or is that a non sequitur?

Tell him it’s a Sentour that he really wants! 

[Tyrone]

I’m thinking you should plant Calamus radicalis along your front entrance. If he tries to go near it you will find him in the morning tangled up in it. A palm that fights back. 

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, Tyrone said:

I’m thinking you should plant Calamus radicalis along your front entrance. If he tries to go near it you will find him in the morning tangled up in it. A palm that fights back. 

Plant a sallaca see how he goes then, but I think you’re onto a good thing with the calmus, it will grab him as walks near it with a pair of scissors they are deadly. 

[JohnAndSancho]

10 hours ago, happypalms said:

Tell him it’s a Sentour that he really wants! 

All i know is you'd have plenty of compost 

[happypalms]

1 hour ago, JohnAndSancho said:

All i know is you'd have plenty of compost 

Horse poo is no good, unless it’s going to be a hybrid mix, and we all know you guys like hybrids! 

[JohnAndSancho]

1 hour ago, happypalms said:

Horse poo is no good, unless it’s going to be a hybrid mix, and we all know you guys like hybrids! 

I mix Bokashi myself. I don't have a horse. 

[happypalms]

10 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I mix Bokashi myself. I don't have a horse. 

You thought a dog cost you money, I had two horses and they cost a fortune. And all I got in return was a heap of palms eaten and a pile of horses poo, that has no nutrient value.