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Gardening
In reply to the discussion: My Neighbor Keeps Throwing Out Expensive Plants [View all]halfulglas
(1,654 posts)31. Before almost everybody stopped using open trash cans and switched to plastic garbage bags
        I used to walk up one side of my street and back the other on the evening before trash pick up, especially in the weeks after holidays and pick up the thrown away plants in pots and bouquets and if I couldn't revive them, empty the flower pots into my backyard compost bin. It's much harder now that almost closes their plastic bags and only occasionally will put a plant beside the bag because it won't fit in.
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        Good for you, one person's trash is another person's treasures!  We had over 550 house plants at
        SWBTATTReg
        Jul 2022
        #3
      
        
        Maybe she's getting the plants as gifts, and she has no interest in keeping them?
        FakeNoose
        Jul 2022
        #18
      
        
        I've had great luck re-blooming orchids. I used to give my late mother orchids sometimes
        Tanuki
        Jul 2022
        #20
      
        
        Before almost everybody stopped using open trash cans and switched to plastic garbage bags
        halfulglas
        Jul 2022
        #31
      
        
        Suspect all those sturdy, drawstring bags, tons of them, will be publicized as
        empedocles
        Jul 2022
        #33