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My heart broke when I noticed your little kid had Lady Slippers, a protected flower, in their beach pail at the Park. Maybe, you couldn’t stop them in time from grabbing them or perhaps you don’t know that they are endangered flowers. Please leave them be in the forest. —Miss Sad
This article appears in Jun 23-29, 2016.
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Or maybe, just maybe… the parent had no idea:
a) the child had them
b) they were ladyslippers
Mr. Annoyed by Your Foolishness
Is there room on that wall to bang my head on, Charlie?
And just who’s protecting all the blades of grass?! And the sand! What about the sand? The sand is an endangered species as the container terminal further invades Point Pleasant-No-More Park. No one ever talks about endangered sand.
Those things are fucking everywhere. What’s the big deal with them?
There’s a certain colour that are endangered I believe. The pink ones are fairly common.
And the OB addressed both points you make Charlie.
Unless it’s a ram’s head lady slipper there is no worries.
What many people don’t realize is that if you pick the flower, you’ve essentially killed the whole plant. Unlike most flowers, lady slippers will not come back next year or propagate if the flower is picked.
Ram’s head, that’s the one Bro Tim, thanks.
Maybe it’s just time for ladyslippers to go extinct. They don’t seem to be doing to much to help their cause. Jammie provides my point..
“What many people don’t realize is that if you pick the flower, you’ve essentially killed the whole plant. Unlike most flowers, lady slippers will not come back next year or propagate if the flower is picked.”
Lady Slippers Lynch Mob!