There are several seed snatcher confession threads started by our beloved Trudi on the seed saving forum. Relax, you are among friends/defendants.

Yes, I am a seed snatcher also :-)

What can I say, you are among friends

Having a dog to walk is an amazing asset. You can pretend to "pick up" after your pet with a small plastic bag..meanwhile..the seedpods just happen to drop into the bag. I don't think anyone would really care, anyways, as long as what you were doing didn't appear to be destructive. Scooping a dried pod is way different than picking tulips!

I have gone to the office of such places and asked if I may have some of the seeds and have not been turned down yet.

I always ask and am always granted permission. My funniest request was when I asked a neighbor several blocks away if I could have his plastic trays/pots that were by the curb for trash. He asked me what I wanted them for and I said "growing plants." Oh.

Wait until we get into the container finding/kidnapping season. My favorite there was a gal who walks with a poncho and a rope and gets jugs from recycling bins that she puts on the rope. A neigthbor thought she was walking a white dog when it was jugs flapping on the end of the line.

This hobby is nuttier then you think. I will try to remember to start a post in WS season for jug hijacking.

Yup confessed seed snatcher here. I was down at my mother in laws fro the holiday. Out smoking a cigarette. There was a loney seed pod. I took it inside and put them in a baggie and placed it on the counter. My ma in law came in and said "what is this" I told her seeds from her plant she started laughing and called me helpless. I think they think I am nuts that is okay. LOL

The lady across the street was throwing out some 3" nursery flat containers and the flats. When she went to bed, I helped myself to them. They were just laying on top of her trash bin after all. I'd rather them be put to good use than be thrown in the landfill.

And yes, I have many seeds that I have "liberated" from non-private sources.

Seeds are meant to be spread and shared so lets do our civic duty and preserve available hybrids and varieties, share them with our fellow gardeners and make our and other people gardens beautiful.

Yup, confessing seed snatcher and Adopt-A-Plant person.
Although I ask before I snatch or adopt.
A few years ago the business besides where I work closed, they had bearded irises and daylilies, the newspaper announce a Harley dealership was moving in. I called the manager, when I asked if I could have some flowers he said it was the weirdest call ever, lol, I could take all the plants if I wanted them.
This summer at the lawyer office of my employer I remarked how nice her lavendar was, she said take all you want.
The following week I called her asst and told her if she sees a person on security snatching lavendar, it was me. They all giggled about that.
At the bank I asked if I could have some of the seed heads by the night deposit box of a ornamental grass, once again odd looks..but have fun.

OK, so I had a garden tour this summer and all the neighbours came to see. At least 7 of them recognized containers they had left at the curb. One of them recognized a small wooden wheelbarrow he had thrown out last year which I brought in and did mosaic designs on, and yet another dropped his jaw when he spotted a cement angel he'd throw out which I brought home and mortared (sp? word?) back together.

As per seed snatching, I used to do courier work for lawyers in the city and have many plants courtesy of the gardens in front of the provincial law court building, federal law court buildings, Registry of Deed building, Family court building, umpteenth lawyer office buildings - not to mention their personal residences and homes of clients, etc.

It's truly a sin to let a good seed go to waste.

Just one day goes by after starting this thread and I find myself taking seeds from plants inside a Burger King.
Gene

It's only stealing if you pull up the entire plant. Taking a few seeds that would otherwise get looted by someone else on this forum isn't a crime.

Now, in a nursery, it would probably be considered theft. But out in the world, I do it all the time. That's how I've gotten so many yellow daylilies and a few hibiscuses.

Lowe's provided bags for me to gather seeds from perennial and annuals in their garden area a couple of weeks ago, they didn't even give strange looks when I asked!

When I worked at Lowe's, they had two people in charge of keeping the plants tidy. I never had issues pulling seed pods from the plants and even showed a few employees what the seeds looked like on petunias and a few other things. I would see women flocking around the cleome table with plastic bags in hand. We never discouraged it as it keeps seeds from getting into other pots and becoming tag-alongs.

genoprizebull,
You are soooo not alone.
These old threads might give you some...ummmm...'helpful' ideas.

new seed snatchin season--anyone started yet?!!!

I'm a Seed Snatcher 2

I'm a Seed Snatcher III

I'm a Seed Snatcher - III

the best seeds in life are free!!!!!!!!
well??? lol...I was going back to my bank when it was closed to get some seeds knowing I was probably going to be on candid camera. When I went back a landscape crew had came in and ripped everything out and put new seasonal plants in. I lost I should have gotten them right then and there. Hmmm never let a seed go by!!! My husband wanted to stop and look at some trailers for 4 wheelers I was like no way I don't want to then I saw this huge prickly pear with big fruits I was like OK!!! I was behind a huge trailer shoving them into my pockets and they had little prickies sticking in me lol and my husband wanted to go inside the gift shop I was like i can't move that much
I have to go back to the truck. He finally gets done shopping to find me inside the truck holding all the fruits and me asking him why he didn't buy anything so i could use the "bag". Well he's the getaway driver and I swear if I had permission it would not be much fun!