You're The One That I Want!
Care to get involved in some skullduggery?
Here’s how:
To steal a hosta from a garden to add to your own, review
the picture posts on this forum over the past few years (since 2012) and select
just one to add to your own collection (that’s the difficult part – narrowing
it down to a single hosta that you would love to own). Strike early by posting
your choice. Once that plant has been taken, it can’t be snatched again. Don’t
identify the hosta or the garden that it came from – some careful sleuthing
will hopefully return the stolen goods back to their rightful owners at a later
date. You have one week to commit your crime!
Should produce a wonderful gallery of stolen treasures!
I’ll trigger this wave of wrongdoing by digging this stunner
up for myself and sneaking it away in the dead of night.
BC
Comments (51)
josephines167 z5 ON Canada
8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
BungalowMonkeys
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don_in_colorado
8 years agoBungalowMonkeys
8 years ago
hostas_for_barb
8 years agoThis Paisley Print is the one I would steal into the night and abduct LOL When I was visiting a Hosta grower in my region last year one of the salespersons mentioned that someone had been in their garden with a shovel trying to steal a hosta. The dogs scared them off but they left the shovel and the odd thing was that is was a Hosta they had for sale anyway. Now she says they have to hide the news ones they are trying out among the others.
digger96 4b MN
8 years agoIf I were to succumb to the madness that told me it was okay to take away somebodys happiness it would be Liberty, and not just one of them but the whole lot of em here. Because deep down I would know I should be caught and it would take time to steal away with these beauties...
BungalowMonkeys
8 years ago
suncoastflowers
8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago::tucks now (unnamed) Hosta under arm and casually walks on :: nothing to see here, folks.. Nothing to see..
josephines167 z5 ON Canada
8 years agoThis GG dazzled me the first time I saw it in 2013! They have so many, they'll never miss it. I'll just leave behind a plastic replica! so it will take Mr. And Mrs. time to realize something is very wrong! Lol
tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
8 years agobchosta 8b west coast canada
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoBungalowMonkeys
8 years agobchosta 8b west coast canada
8 years ago
Linda's Garden z6 Utah
8 years agoI have been coveting this one for quite a while. Now's my chance to take it! No one will see me taking this one in the dead of the night. Ha ha ha (trying to do an evil laugh)
bchosta 8b west coast canada
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoBy the way thieving community - here's a tip that you may like to utilize to cover your tracks, or try to throw any detectives off your trail.
Crop the picture to eliminate any distinguishing garden features or neighbouring plants. Alternatively, you may use an editing program to remove the background altogether, or impose a distracting frame.
I didn't think of this in time, but if I had, my posted pic could have looked like this...
or even this...
And that's without too much effort on my part!
If you are particularly clever, perhaps the victim of the crime won't even recognize their own plant staring them in the face!
BC
beverlymnz4
8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
Is mine. Although there was a Lakeside Cindy Cee right next to it...
bchosta 8b west coast canada
8 years agobkay2000
8 years agoThis is one I would love to have. I'd steal it but it's too far to Michigan and it succumbed to bad weather. (But, she's growing another one.)
bk
bchosta 8b west coast canada
8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
DelawareDonna Zone 7A
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoThis is a very rare photo of a hosta that I covet. Looks like its in the Land of the Giants. Who knows - It might get thrown on the driveway and then its easy pickings. Gonna get my truck.......gonna be a long ride!!!
BungalowMonkeys
8 years agoLooks like I'm not the only bad criminal here, naming hosta owner names, location and hosta variety! I've since returned the 3 that I've stolen, you are welcome McTavish, no need to thank me for returning them. ;)
This guy right here is another hosta that is saved to my "wants" folder. Consider it snagged in the night.
sandyslopes z5 n. UT
8 years ago
zkathy z7a NC
8 years agoSo I would wear a long full dress and a graceful floppy hat. Cut the flowers off, attach to hat, hide hosta under skirt. Everyone would be looking at the flowers on the hat, no one would notice the leaves sticking out from the skirt.
Kathy
ConnieMay ON Z6a
8 years agoThere are sooo many to choose from!
I really would like this one...but the post is from before 2012 and I don't think it was posted by the owner...
BungalowMonkeys
8 years ago
Kate1970
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoLuckily for the owner of this gem, I just purchased my very own version of this plant. However, if I were the 'thieving type' this gardner would need an electric fence lol.
windymess z6a KC, Ks
8 years agoHere's the one that I want... and if I can prepare the bed where I intend to plant it, I put it in there this summer. Ahhh, I can almost smell it through this photo!
Kate1970
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoSince thieves don't follow rules (I'm assuming they don't anyways). I have to add one more to my downward spiral into a life of horticultural thievery and skullduggery. I'm a sucker for streakers!
ilovetogrow z9 Jax Florida
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoI have said it before this is one hosta I need. I mean really need so I am headed to Massachusetts to go and get this Lakeside . I will be wearing my Batman costume. Don't worry I have my own shovel.
bchosta 8b west coast canada
8 years agoKate1970
8 years agoilovetogrow z9 Jax Florida
8 years agoKate1970
8 years agoilovetogrow z9 Jax Florida
8 years ago
pugm0ther
8 years agoWell, normally I'm a very law-abiding citizen, but obviously you hosta fans are a BAD influence! I'm stealing this one:
linnea56 (zone 5b Chicago)
8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
ilovetogrow z9 Jax Florida
8 years agoKate1970
8 years agoKate1970
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoLast one, tried to offer first born child for this one.
beverlymnz4
8 years agoKate, that one is worth the risk. Here is an unusual one I want, I would just take a piece in hopes that it wouldn't be missed.
Beverly
ilovetogrow z9 Jax Florida
8 years agobchosta 8b west coast canada
8 years agoJust a few hours remaining...
As fabulous as the hostas that are already snagged look...
there's numerous other magnificent plants out there!
So... put on your...
and creep into action!
BC
Steppskie (5a/b IN)
8 years agoI'm like shadows and dust... a little breeze...
and poof, your hosta is now mine...
Steppskie (5a/b IN)
8 years ago
tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱