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No matter what type of plant,tree,bush. When you see people,companies or resturants just throw away perfectly healthy plants!! Local place here threw away large agave's,yucca's,20" thick sago palms. There was nothing wrong with this plants,I saw them all sitting in a huge dumpster. We don't have a yard and I could have never pulled them out of the dumpster on my own. Old carwash place had a nice windmill palm 5ft tall,someone bought the place out and threw away all the landscape. Large wild easteren prickly pear cactus bush,growing across the street. It was in a weedy area no one paid attention too. I thought I should dig it up and pot it on the porch so nothing ever happens to it. Other day noticed someone brush hogged and its dead now... So many plants,trees are wasted when people could just set them by the street for sale or free. Cheaper them hauling it all away.

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YES! The house bordering my back yard was recently bought by new owners. There were lots of palms and oleander that made a beautiful barrier between our yards. All but one W. robusta are gone. They even cut down a 30' tall Canary Island Date Palm. I can think of no reason why they would do that. I thought they might be trying to save on the water bill, but i'm sure removal of the 30' palm alone was expensive.

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Thats crazy!! People would have bought them or came and got them for free. Non plant people could care less. I think they would be fine with watering. I have seen alot of palms around here that never get watered unless it rains. They have been fine for years. Plus sucks for you with privacy. I have always loved your sig picture!

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It is an absolute, utter disrespect of life and living things. I can't imagine my neighbour would do that. I wouldn't even bother talking to such a person anymore. There are cases, when the plants and trees affect the statics of the house, but if there's no apparent reason, it's really shameful.

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Hurts my heart too :( ...they could at least have Craigslist or Freecycled them.
People will come & take them away for nothing.
No sense to needlessly waste plant life like that. ~Cheryl

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Why do people do this?! I really feel bad when anything living gets mistreated. Now picture these perfectly good plants slowly rotting 10 feet under a pile of garbage at the dump and for no reason at all. There are people who cant afford nice landscapes who would have been happy to take them, and there are also people like me who just love plants and wouldnt want to see them die.

Its sad to think that this happens everywhere every day to many plants. Its one thing to knock down a forest tree, but its so much worse to completely dig up and destroy someones yard they worked hard to perfect.

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When there are to many pups around the trees, I bring them to work and plant them around the pond out back. There has been talk in the past about planing a garden back there. So I have acres to plant on now ;)
If or when I see trees downed like that, I normally grab them and plant them someplace. We have a pond by our house. Tall Brazilians and a bunch of homeless trees live there now. Helps block traffic.
The city won't put anything in....no money for that any longer...so it's up to us! :)

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problem is people will sue for anything. Even when people try to do the right thing they get screwed. For example if someone said hey come over to my property and dig up plants and someone had an accident they could sue the property owner for their injuries. Messed up world we live in.

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Its possible I guess.

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1 have a twenty foot windmill palm I am getting rid of.Come and take it for free. I offered this tree no one wants it.

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Its sad people throw good things to waste. Hey, Tony can't you compost it? :^)

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Thats great Scott I take mine to my brothers he has five and a half acres with a lake I can plant allot there and I also take things to my sisters and plant I think I gave her almost every plant she has around her house !

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Yeah, it is upsetting. I've seen similar things happen here, although it isn't ever with tropicals (since they are anything but indigenous to this area :ha: ). Still, it isn't nice to see a really excellent plant destroyed and tossed in the trash. Like others have said, many people would love to have such plants in their own yards and can't afford them. The problem here is that it is simply cheaper and simpler to toss them out in the garbage than to try to find someone to take them off your hands. The fact of the matter is that not everyone respects plants like we do here.

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Complete disrespect for nature. I'm starting to think that if people don't like plants, I don't want them as close friends.

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I am more upset at the resources wasted to grow that plant, transport it, and etc just so that plant can look pretty for a few months or week in some hotel lobby is such a shame on the environment. Some places will keep replacing their plants over and over too.

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It is quite logical, respect for nature is the same as respect for other people.
From the times when we were slaves to the monarchy (before 1918) comes one saying older people keep reminding us about:
"Don't judge people according to how they behave to their superiors, but judge them by how they behave to those (things and people), whom they consider inferior."

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Keeps the landscapers & nurseries in business
We cut down 4 large trees when we bought this house
A 5th tree had to go when the garage/additionw ent in
Then the last big Oak out front died

Since then I have planted a couple dozen large trees
And several dozen smaller trees
Plus a ton of gardens

Gardens are more work
Mulching, weeding etc
Much easier to just run the lawn mower over grass

And taller trees etc can damage a house if they fall
I topped one dual-trunk silver maple on the side of my property - too tall
Since then it has exploded in new growth & now is a nice fuill tree
I posted info on "Treehugger" site
Moderator thought I should have just cut the tree down ...it will die anyways
Its been almost 2 years & the tree looks great
I think the Moderator & a few others are idiots....no clue

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I keep seeing it all of the time. People buy plants, impress people, have no use for them after that and toss them like trash. It is not a healthy way to think about living things. I recently created a photo-journal called "Progress Report". I watched 7 houses demolished, many trees ripped apart and dragged from the ground (even a few fruit trees). I have photos of large rose bushes buried in the rubble along with many other flowering plants. I took photos of a dandelion flowering between the treads of the back-hoes and machinery. An elderly woman asked me to help her save one of the rose bushes but it was buried too deep. :(
I wonder how that affects how people think about and treat each other...

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Here's an example on a pretty grand scale. Every winter when we hava a severe storm around here, all the local TV stations have reporters somehere on the area (New Jersey shore, and Long Island, New York) beaches, leaning into the howling wind, with the rain or snow pelting them in the face. Many times you can see, in the background a big ole dead palm tree.

Here's what happens. Each spring, some shore towns and beachfront businesses (and even some wealthy individuals, for their own homes) buy Queen palms in Florida and truck them up to plant on the beaches. They usually use Queens, because they grow fast, and are cheap. At the end of the season, they just leave them there. The winter kills them, and they plant new ones in the next spring.

Here's a picture of a 25 - 30 footer, taken at a Florida nursery trade show, last year. The man said I could have it for $50.00, and they could get about 40 of 'em on a truck. The transportation would run about $70.00 each, so the total would be about $120.00 each.
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Here's a picture from the current website of a shore restaurant/beach club/amusement park.
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sounds about right since I saw a queen palm pretty much the same size for $100.00 at HD here. Half way dead but atleast they said its not cold hardy on a sign.