Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Warham Road at Harringay Passage: Plants stolen from public planter
Just in case anyone happened to see it...my children and I cleaned out one of the 'public' planters at junction of Warham Rd and Haringey Passageway over weekend, a really unfun job as full of dead prickly plants. Then we also replanted it with 3 small rosemary and 3 lavender plants.
Someone today (3 days later) saw fit to take all 6 new plants out of the planter in broad daylight. Hard to better our neighbourhood when people do such things. Harder still to believe no one saw it happening (we weren't home).
Photos above of pre-clean up, after we planted and now. Yes I am very aware people steal potted plants off the Ladder, but pulling them out of dirt of a public planter (well watered in etc) is a depressing new low.
Tags for Forum Posts: harringay passage, planters, warham road
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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Yes, people perhaps thought the council was putting in the plants and somehow that made them fair game! Mind you, everything that isn't bolted down around here quickly disappears - the parcel theft racket in our street has reached epidemic proportions. We know who takes them, we even know where they live, the police have been told and nothing has changed...
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Yes, people perhaps thought the council was putting in the plants and somehow that made them fair game! Mind you, everything that isn't bolted down around here quickly disappears - the parcel theft racket in our street has reached epidemic proportions. We know who takes them, we even know where they live, the police have been told and nothing has changed...
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Unbelievable that someone would stoop so low as to steal something like this, which has clearly been done for the benefit of the community. Really depressing. I'm guessing ground cover type plants might be less tempting? Thank you for your efforts all the same!
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Permalink Reply by Anna T on
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Really sorry to hear about this Kat after all your and your children s effort. I often walk past these planters and it’s so nice to see them looking lovely.
I hope you haven’t given up on that, although I would totally understand if you did.
I have a surplus of low maintenance plants in my garden that I’d be happy to donate. Please DM me if interested.
I’m on Seymour Rd.
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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Would I be right in thinking that these brown planters are made of recycled plastic? They look pretty substantial and, when full of soil, must weigh so much that they are unlikely themselves to be stolen. I may need to acquire something similar pretty soon.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Yes that's right, the last time they were moved for re-doing the pavement they needed one of those things they move cars with to shift them. Very, very heavy.
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Dear Kat, well done for doing that and don't be disheartened. I used to help out tending the planters with Liz but moved away. As Liz said we found that certain plants disappeared but a whole range stayed, particularly less glamorous ones, and those with multiple small flowers; though now it's also a matter of finding plants which are more drought tolerant. It became a pleasant way of meeting and joining with others on Warham and nearby streets, so hopefully you will be able to take up any offers of more plants or perhaps others will be willing to take on the other planters. Best wishes.
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Permalink Reply by Kat on
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thanks Maggie, yes a lot of people bought little plants at the nearby school fair and planted ;-) which is great, they are community planters after all and we just decided to try as we are close enough with some water access now. Fingers crossed.
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Permalink Reply by tigha on
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That’s a real shame, and so sad that happened
unfortunately things are really rogue here atm, and I’m going to put a seaparate post here about it. Hopefully this type of trash will improve soon. I’ve never known it this bad before
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What about a selection of grasses? Although they would need to be purchased and maybe you don't want to throw good money after bad?! I do t think anyone would steal them...
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my initial thought was to have at least some plants be hardy drought resistant 'evergreens' (which maybe some grasses are..so will keep in mind!) so that the planters would not look so forlorn in winter and not attractive to pests and disease. And for them to be low maintenance as apart from watering and some weeding I am not a skilled or knowledgeable gardener at all. I can see now that I should have canvassed ahead re thieves, it just didn't occur to me that such a thing would happen to a public planter (I work in wood green and there are a lot of very grungy public planters with these plants & others like geraniums and are not stolen from...so, it was how I got the idea for which plants). Plus didn't want to make a big deal out of doing a small thing, we know this kind of project is 'extra' in tough and busy times but when the plants were stolen was upset so posted (and it has been very eye opening reading everything!)...with environmental change/damage plants can be a great help. Anyway! Many many thanks for all the thoughts & experienced shared, a real learning experience and a lot of positivity has arisen out of it overall esp with donated plants from many people on the street, which is so great.
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