stolen plants

Last post 14-11-2012 9:50 PM by Julie. 8 replies.

• 17/08/2011 10:52 AM

  Julie Location: London Joined on: 28 Apr 2009 Posts: 410

  Reply | Contact I'm somewhat devastated this morning. When I looked at my front garden (and my neighbour's garden which I look after) Monday morning I saw that someone had cut some hollyhocks from both gardens - annoying, esp as they took the seedheads from which I take seeds to plant for next year's plants - but only 3 stems so not too bad. This morning I see they pulled out my best sunflowers (in the front in the first pic below from July before they bloomed - they took longer to bloom but were spectacular - I had people stopping to take pics of the garden it looked so nice). This is them now. Some pulled out of the ground and this one just left like this. Has anyone else had this sort of thing happen? What can we do to protect our front gardens? Not a lot I imagine :(

• 17/08/2011 11:31 AM	In reply to
  Susiq Location: Northumberland Joined on: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 3,125	Reply | Contact Oh no Julie, what a nasty wanton act of destruction The only things I can think of is to put either a movement sensor spotlight outside (we've got one, its really effective), or a more expensive solution is to install CCTV.

• 17/08/2011 05:35 PM	In reply to
  alex-adam Location: Cleveland Joined on: 29 Jul 2011 Posts: 40	Reply | Contact A few years ago I planted up the garden in front of the offices of an environmental charity organisation. I put in shrubs, including a nice large fig, some roses and herbaceous perennials, most of which had been gifts. The gardens were behind a good metal fence 2 mtrs high, and the gates locked. - The weekend after the job was completed, the whole lot were stolen !!

• 18/08/2011 07:52 PM	In reply to
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 4,547	Reply | Contact Oh, what a shame! A sensor light might help discourage this from happening again, but I don't think there's a foolproof answer. Have you reported this to the police? I know it's not exactly a serious crime, but if there's a local pattern of nuiscance behaviour there may be something they can do. Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.

• 19/08/2011 05:52 AM

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  Julie Location: London Joined on: 28 Apr 2009 Posts: 410

  Reply | Contact Alex, that's awful! Something really weird happened yesterday. I was walking through a small park on the way home and found my plants discarded there. Why did they pull them up just to throw them away!?! And if they just wanted to vandalise why did they take them there? Why not discard them somewhere closer? I did report it to the police and they were sympathetic but not sure they'll do much. They said they'd check the cameras nearby but I had to give them a small time frame to check when I think it happened, ie they won't go through hours and hours of footage for it.

• 28/03/2012 10:49 AM	In reply to
  Mark Location: Australia Joined on: 27 Mar 2012 Posts: 9	Reply | Contact Yes, such type of things happen in my garden too. The security of garden is important and for that fencing is the better option. After that incident, fencing has been done in my garden. It prevents it from harmful animals as well as human intruders.

• 04/04/2012 09:45 AM

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  the fishes friend ian Location: merthyr tydfil Joined on: 29 Aug 2011 Posts: 28

  Reply | Contact  hi julie ,kidds did that i bet we put solar lights out last year the ones that change colour we had them one night our front garden faces walkways so only local people use them but kids are always up and down them ,we got four foot high walls gates so everybody can see in we only moved in last year and people always comment on how good it looks and what a difference we have made so i put bells on the gate so when someone opens gate they ring front garden is only 20foot long so we can hear it ring also i cable tied all our hanging baskets incase ,guess what i put shepards hooks out with tea light holders on saturday only out a few hours kidds going back and fo all afternoon we went in i put the bunggee cord across gate with bells on in about halve an hour bells rung wife went to window kid opening gate seen misses in window legged it ,kidds i bet did yours ,also our other problem is scrap men they just walk into garden and take anything metal thats not tied down next door had wheel barrow taken kids goal posts and roofing sheets for new shed he has now put up 6 foot panels up all around garden no wonder why we are lossing our  friendly neighbours we are all living in a fortress ,ff RUB THE BUDDHAS BELLY FOR LUCK

• 08/04/2012 12:45 AM	In reply to
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 5,230	Reply | Contact These people who do this kind of thing are usually chavs or some such and giving them a good hiding should sort them out, if you can ever find out who they are that is,I once had all my tulips stamped on during the night, some folk are just ignorant and very jealous. digger Sage of the fells

• 14/11/2012 09:50 PM	In reply to
  Julie Location: London Joined on: 28 Apr 2009 Posts: 410	Reply | Contact There was something on last week's GQT about foxes digging up and moving plants. It got me thinking, maybe these plants were pulled up by foxes and moved by them without any human intervention. I'll never know for sure but it is possible.