Social media users advise tenant to dig up flower bulbs after landlord forces them out

Starting a flower garden takes time, energy, and often money. Yet, the joy it brings can make it all worth it. That is, if you get to keep them.

A renter posting to the r/gardening subreddit shared the sad aftermath of a forced separation from their beloved flowers.

They explained their landlord forced them out of their rental, thus preventing them from enjoying their impressive garden. In a follow-up comment, they noted that the landlord had bought their old building outright and simply ended everyone's leases. Now their flowers were the landlord's.

"Thought I'd share my favorite flowers from over the years that my landlord now gets to enjoy," they wrote. "Missing the lilies in particular."

Their pictures showed some stunners. They included what appear to be varieties of tulips, lilies, dahlias, chrysanthemums, roses, Austrian copper roses, and bleeding-heart blooms. It wasn't surprising that the original poster had some real longing for their old companions.

Interestingly, Redditors said they didn't have to leave their flowers behind.

"I am a renter as well and always dig up my plants and bring [them] with me," a user wrote. Other Redditors backed that idea, and one presented a rationale for why it was OK.

"If they were bulbs I paid for, I'd have dug them up and taken them with me, but I'm just [petty] like that," they argued.

The OP was receptive to that concept and a bit regretful that they didn't take the initiative.

They exclaimed: "I should've done that and put them in pots! Lol oh well."

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It was unclear how realistic that was, as in a separate post, they complained about not having anywhere to put the flowers, even if they were in pots.

Either way, visitors to the post were sympathetic to the OP's loss.

"Renting was the pits for many reasons but a big one was living at the whim of a landlord," a new homeowner wrote. "I hope you are able to garden again soon!"

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