People are very protective of their plants. Plants are usually associated with the earth and nature, but we as humans have taken them and made them a part of our lives. We give them the same love and care as we do for our pets. So when someone messes with your plants, they are messing with you and your home. A plant mom came online to Reddit to ask if she was in the wrong for screaming at her niece and sister-in-law and banning them from her home after they trimmed her plants without her permission and destroyed them.
A woman takes a stand after her plants are trimmed without permission and bans her niece and SIL from her home.

After collecting 35 plants over the years, one woman was not happy when her niece and SIL trimmed them without permission!

Jenny (14F) develops an interest in plants, but gets banned when her aunt finds out they were trimmed without her permission.

Woman gets angry when her niece and SIL trim her plants without permission and decides to ban them from her home

Woman explains care needed for prized plants, only to be met with an unexpected question.

A woman’s surprise return home to find her plants had been ‘trimmed’ without her permission!

Woman angry after her beloved plants were trimmed without permission and decides to ban her niece and SIL from her home.

Woman’s plants trimmed without permission, leading to a ban of her niece and SIL.

Aunt vents her anger after her niece and SIL trim her plants without her permission

SIL stirred up the drama by saying “what’s done is done”

Woman decides to take drastic action after her plants are trimmed without her permission

The aunt refused to let her niece and SIL return anything after they trimmed her plants without permission

Jenny’s niece and SIL were banned from her home after she found out her plants were trimmed without her permission

Woman gets so upset her plants were trimmed without her permission she decides to ban her niece and SIL from her home. “Don’t EVER come near me or my home again.”

The woman was so upset she decided to ban her niece and SIL from her home

Woman is devastated after her plants were trimmed without permission and decides to take action by banning her niece and SIL.

The auntie was so infuriated by her plants being trimmed without her permission that she decided to ban her niece and SIL from her home.

She never expected her niece and SIL to destroy her prized plants
When the OP returned home from a two-week trip, she was horrified to find her prized houseplants destroyed. Her niece Jenny (14F) and SIL had agreed to plant-sit for her, but instead of taking care of them, they had given the plants “haircuts” – reducing some to just two leaves. The OP screamed and yelled at them, and threw them out of her house, before realizing that her niece had sold some of her plants on the marketplace. The OP wonders if her edict to never let them in the same room as her again is too harsh. The OP’s reaction has sparked a flurry of comments and reactions – let’s take a look at what people have to say.
NTA: SIL was taking advantage

14yo niece & ♀️ SIL planned from plants ? NTA.

Family drama ♂️

NTA: Someone stole from her plants!

SIL and niece steal for , OP NTA!

Did they really sell the plants?!
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Niece and SIL steal from OP’s garden

NTA: No children involved ♀️

NTA: No ♀️ Here ♀️

Is Jenny up to *no-good*?

NTA: don’t mess with OP’s plants!

Family doesn’t steal!

NTA: SIL manipulated niece to make $$ off OP’s plants!

NTA: Sue SIL & 2nd chance for niece?

NTA – Boundaries are

Plant-person to plant-person: NTA

NTA Press Charges

NTA: Profiting from plants

Aunt bans thieving niece and SIL!

NTA: Demand compensation for !

NTA: Plants cut for profit!

Aunt’s plants stolen by family

NTA: Press charges against SIL

Robbed blind!

Grandma : NTA
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NTA: don’t butcher someone’s plants!

Family drama! NTA

NTA – You trusted them, they disrespected you

NTA: They stole from you!

Aunt takes a stand

Grandma takes legal action

NTA: Plants killed for profit?

NTA: Boundaries crossed

Cutting out cancerous growths

NTA:

NTA.

NTA: They destroyed her plants

NTA but SIL is to blame

Should she get the authorities involved?

NTA: ♀️ Take court action!

NTA: Entitled niece and SIL

NTA: Protect your ️ and your !

NTA: Selling cuttings of plants

NTA – profits without permission?

NTA: Take evidence and make them pay!

OP’s niece and SIL

Auntie tells it like it is

NTA: pressing charges?

NTA: she should apologize & make restitution ♀️

♂️ NTA: Common thieves ️♂️

NTA: Betrayal and theft

Family ties broken

Plants are precious

NTA – How to fight back!

NTA: Plants are living things too!

NTA!

NTA: SIL probably convinced niece to trim plants

A hard stance

NTA: Property destroyed!

NTA: SIL wanted to know the cost

NTA – SIL shouldn’t steal ♀️

NTA: Who steals plants?!

NTA for being upset

NTA: Property destroyed!

Family clash:

Aunt takes legal action?

NTA Woman takes justice into her own hands
