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Garden thieves strike again!
:mad: :mad: :mad: I am spitting feathers here! Just been out the front and I notice that my lovely hydrangea has now been nicked! It was in a big heavy pot so it can't have been kids. I wonder if it's the same thief who stole the acer? I hope they get wood rot (and I don't mean the plants!) :mad: :mad: :mad:
Am now giving serious consideration to having the whole blessed thing concreted over and painted green! :rolleyes: |
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you could concrete ur pots into the floor then aswell so they'd have to pull the plants out by the roots to get at them and they probably wouldnt do it because they'd have to buy their own pots.
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It wouldn't stop em blazey - they left the pot behind last time!
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yer beedy eye aint worked willow, soz couldnt resist.:D
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:p My beedy eye was asleep last night - both of them were!
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Get a CCTV Camera.
Only £6.99 or was from LLoyds Pharmacy. plugs straight into TV or Video. |
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The cynic in me says what good would that do? I'd probably get done for filming people without their permission. :cool: |
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What you mean one like "Attention plant thieves! Smile, you're on Candid Camera!"
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You're allowed to CCTv your own property as long as its for good reasons like harrassment & theft etc.
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That,s very sad people like your self try and make thing,s nice and you get your flowers took, i hope you get the person for this and he, or she, is punished for it.
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May not be much chance of catching them but the police now have a description (of the pot)
They seem to think that thieves are targeting an area so if you're anywhere near the upper Willows Lane region keep your hand on your hollyhocks as Brucie used to say. It's not just pots either. They are not averse to digging things up. If anyone hears any goings on in their own garden the police would appreciate a registration number of any vehicle which may be being used to transport the ill gotten garden greenery. |
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sorry to hear about this: having just started work on my garden I know how much hard work not to mention money goes into it:
In my front garden I have plants but I also leave nice bits of razor wire under the rim of the pot... so if someone trys to steal them: Well they will have a nasty cut: |
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So sorry that this happened to you again Willow. That is really just terrible. I hope they get these people before they destroy the beauty of the Willows lane landscape as well as how violated you guys must feel.
Brian P.S. At least now I could find your place a bit easier . . . maybe.:p |
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Sorry, this was a double post. First I can't post on many threads and now it's double posting!
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Ask the police how you can set up security within legal guidelines so that you have proof. You can email them and make enquiries you know so you could keep the reply email as proof if they tell you how you can do it, so if any smart ass gets caught and tries to say you shouldnt have filmed them you can say the police advised you to.
Also ask the police if it would be safe to use the razor wire under the rims idea . Its worth a try if it saves your plants from being uprooted. |
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Are you sure you are positioning the plants in the right position?
Perhaps there's a Feng Shui freak on the loose.:D |
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Police have been on the phone and suggested I cement pots to path but I don't really want to do that. The point of the pots is that they are re-arrangeable. They reckon the plants will turn up at a car boot sale but there's no way of proving they are ours. I've just noticed that a spare tub has gone too - maybe they nicked that for the acer that they took previously!
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Oh Willow I am seething for you .. how heartbreaking.
Don't feel you would get away with the razor wire .. don't know if you remember the pieces of glass cemented on top of back yard walls years ago .. became illegal in case someone decided to climb over your back door sometime and hurt themselves.. :mad: |
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Wilow, I stand by my previous suggestion after the first theft. Put in that deep bear trap filled with pointy sticks:p
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why would people nick plants?:confused:
hey willow you could always try plant anchor! it secure your plants and pots:D Plant Anchor at Topiary Shop.co.uk ;) |
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Theres some strange plant pots turned up outside the co-op in ossy, maybe their yours :eek:
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Britcliffe did warn us they were coming .. mentioned in Observer today .. also was an article for the proposed ones on Broadway recently (thread on here somewhere)... have they arrived? Can only hope they don't see the same demise as Willows .. but are CCTV cameras around them.. |
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Theres a couple at the memorial at the bottom of rhyddings street too. The ones at the co-op do look like they have just been dumped in any old place but they do look lovely. Just hope they stay that way.
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I'd be heartbroken if it happened to me. My only suggestion is to grow something like roses in your front garden. Maybe the thorns would be a deterrent, I can't weed round mine without ending up with gouges all up my arms so I look like I've been mauled by a tiger. I have bled, profusely, into the soil - maybe that's why my roses are always healthy - fertilser!
Do you remember the case of the retired accountant, last year, who was pinching plants from his neighbours' allotments? He was taken to court for it. You haven't any accountants living nearby, have you? |
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Apparently they sell them at car boot sales according to the police - but I wouldn't put it past people pinching them for their own gardens. A decent hydrangea bush can set you back a bit, and acers aren't cheap. Roses? Maybe I should be letting my thorn bush grow wild again! That was quite a vicious brute in its heyday. Brian, I may reconsider the bear trap, just have to warn the postman in advance. |
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