Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Warning re plant thieves

I live in Hornsey Park Road, and some time between 8pm last night and lunchtime today, some thieving scumbag (I'm waiting to be told that they were misunderstood poor people who cannot afford their own herbs!) has stolen 2 herb plants from my front garden - one v large rosemary plant (that I've been growing for over a year) and one large apple-mint plant (that I've been growing from the 2 small stems I bought at Harringay Market at the beginning of the summer). Both well-loved and used several times a week in my kitchen. Both were in fairly large pots, so not easy or light to carry, and they left behind some smaller, more straggly plants, which makes me believe it was not kids 'messing about' but someone who intended to sell the plants on.

I know in the grand scheme of things they are only a couple of plants, but this has made me very upset and angry, and ruined my day to be honest. I thought they were fairly safe in my front garden as I have grown herbs out there for years, and because they were big eniough to be quite awkward to take for an opportunist thief.

Just wanted to warn anyone who, like me, enjoys brightening their road with potted plants in their from garden - these thieves will take anything they can!

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Permalink Reply by Lesley G on October 4, 2012 at 17:22

If it were drunken students then they would more likely have taken the smaller, much less heavy and awkward to carry, pots and not the big heavy plants that I have lovingly looked after for months.

Oh and I've just checked my liberal handbook and there's nothing in there about welcoming or forgiving thieves. In fact, on page 27, it explicitly says that if someone steals something from you, particularly something that you have looked after and nurtured, then you are perfectly entitled to call them 'scumbags'.