I choose to think of it as letting them go, not throwing them away. If they come back, then it's up to us to decide if we want them back. If not, we haven't lost anything.
I think Gardener was saying that he is the one being discarded, not the other way around.
Yep. You got it. You beat me to that clarification. Thanks.
Gardener
"My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own." Cyrano deBergerac