Grrr!!! Who stole my flower box? (reward offered!)

So I moved. And since I'm moved to a 1st floor apt, I thought that buying some nice flower boxes and filling them with (wait for it....) flowers would be a nice idea. So I bought two and set them up outside on my gate. Very pretty, I thought, I hope my new neighbors like them.

One week later, one of them has already been stolen. Dammit.

Scene of the crime: 16th street, btw 7th and 8th (close to the corner of 8th).

Time: This past friday or saturday night. (I was out of town visiting my family)

If anyone has information about the dastardly perpetrators of this heinous act, please forward them along.

I will try and post a picture tomorrow of its companion box. Thank you for your help, concerned citizens.

that sucks! I made flower boxes last week - noboy better steal them!

definitely post a pic. I walk down your block a few times a week, and the surrounding blocks as well and I'll be on the lookout now

I have a lot of experience with stolen flowers! I have learned that if I plant tulips for the spring to make sure that they don't bloom around mother's day. People have been known to cut them from my front garden and give them as bouquets to their mothers. Once I did a large circle with geraniums and the middle was filled with marigolds. The next morning someone had actually dug up all the geraniums! Then there was the lady who I confronted cutting roses off my rose bush. She told me that "G-d made the flowers."

I have learned not to plant anything that is too showey or any identifiable flowers that can be cut.

Flexi.. I think this is a losing battle for you. Whoever stole the boxes is just waiting for you to replace them.

Veets - I can't believe she said god made the flowers. Well, god made big screen tvs too, but we don't steal them!

btw, not my flower boxes. Mine are still in my window :-)

a middle-aged lady touring our community garden last summer stole the little santolina plant (not fancy, showy, or rare; plants just like ours go for $3 at the farmer's market) right out of the ground when we turned our backs.

and i found armchair's young pieris japonica lying on the sidewalk last spring -- someone stole it and dumped it a block later. :scratch: (i potted it up, and he and the plant were happily reunited -- thanks, Brooklynian!)

a middle-aged lady touring our community garden last summer stole the little santolina plant (not fancy, showy, or rare; plants just like ours go for $3 at the farmer's market) right out of the ground when we turned our backs.

and i found armchair's young pieris japonica lying on the sidewalk last spring -- someone stole it and dumped it a block later. :scratch: (i potted it up, and he and the plant were happily reunited -- thanks, Brooklynian!)

That is all so uncool.

We had plants out front for the first year we lived here, but got tired of our neighbors using them as ashtrays.

That is all so uncool.

We had plants out front for the first year we lived here, but got tired of our neighbors using them as ashtrays.

last year some jerk on a bike stole a whole bunch of my plants. sweet tea found one of them . yay


if i'm gonna put new plants, i'm going to lock them down with chicken wire or wires or something. too lazy to fix old ones.

i lost a few rose bushes in the front and few other nice plants. now i just use uglier plants that nobody wants to steal LOL.

last year some jerk on a bike stole a whole bunch of my plants. sweet tea found one of them . yay


if i'm gonna put new plants, i'm going to lock them down with chicken wire or wires or something. too lazy to fix old ones.

i lost a few rose bushes in the front and few other nice plants. now i just use uglier plants that nobody wants to steal LOL.

Ok, now I feel better.. It is not just my garden that is the victim.. It is a PS epidemic and everyone has a war story!

(Flexi..duh.. I didn't read your original post correctly. the heat has melted my brain today)

Ok, now I feel better.. It is not just my garden that is the victim.. It is a PS epidemic and everyone has a war story!

(Flexi..duh.. I didn't read your original post correctly. the heat has melted my brain today)