I didn't know what to think, until I read a post over on the Antiques forum that this has happened before...and in much greater quantity. I was really mad until I read that post, but now I just think its kind of sad that someone would dig/pull up a perfectly good rose bush.

On a good note, I "found" my Charisma growing in the grass/weeds behind some taller roses (I couldn't find it a couple of weeks ago, and figured I had shovel pruned it, and just forgotten)...glad my mind is still here...

Tammy

The one and only picture of my poor White Out :(

Dirty, rotten scoundrels!

Kay

I worry for your Knockouts, though. People know what they are and you've got a thief in the area. If you have some rebar you could hammer it into the ground at angles through the roots of the plant. It would make it harder for the rose to be pulled from the ground.

There are some real scum out there with no sense of personal ownership. (Those idiots who drove into the Holston River a couple of weeks ago, drove by my house to get to the river......and they didn't know what county they were in or what they had done between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning. Stupid or criminal or both. It's getting hard to tell the difference.)

You hope that Karma will catch up to them but I wonder if these people are even bright enough to know they're getting payback. Or if they'll just blithely go along thinking they have the right to do what ever they please.

As for people stealing my fruit, that hasn't happened. Luckily, all my fruit trees are in the backyard within the fence. So the only one that steels it is my cocker spanial who has learned to jump up and rattle the tree...lol! Same fate for my raspberries and blueberries...eaten by the dogs long before they ever ripen.

Let me tell you, I will definitely be keeping my eyes open for a White Out in some of my neighbor's gardens ;)

Tammy

A friend has one specifically for wildlife just to see what different critters were walking a path down the mountain from his place. Another caught a teenager taking the new bathroom fixtures and cabinets out of his house as it was being built.

I'd like to film the deer action in the orchard and among the old roses at the base of the hill.

My other brother in law got his cams from Best Buy, those were a little expensive but they were good! He watched his house from his phone or the internet when he wasn't home.. With our set up we can do the same thing. We have a DVR which he programmed to record when the cam senses motion, 2 min before and 2 min after and the picture is great. I would contact a security company to get a quote personally and not go to a home improvement store or to see if best buy has them in your area.

After ten years at our place, the same happened to me last summer and I just felt so devastated. It wasn't a rose but it was a group of ligularia that I loved. Our house is far from the road. I have a group of perennials by the mailbox which have never thrived (deer, shades, salt from the plowing in the winter you name it.) I finally got the ligularia to take off after several years of pampering. They looked amazing. We went away on vacation and we come back and found a huge hole in the ground and the plants gone! I imagine they were casing the joint so to speak, planning their plant theft.

We live in a rural area on a quiet cul de sac road with no traffic where many of our neighbors don't even lock their houses. It had to have been in inside job which just freaks me out.

I was out for my daily walk and walked back to my property approaching it from the other end of the street.
Someone was there when I got there, clipping a few roses, and she had a vase with her, so this was planned.

I stopped and looked at her quizically, and she volunteered "the lady that lives here said it was okay."
She threw the roses on the ground and left when I calmly looked back at her and said "I am the only lady who lives here."

I think that was not the first time she did that, but it was certainly the last. (I hope.)

In all the years I had nothing but roses in the container garden, only one rose was ever stolen. Thank God I had two of that one.

My sympathies are with anyone who has a plant stolen. It's such a wretched feeling to lose the plant, but it's almost as bad to know that someone would stoop that low.

Lyn