Has anyone else had problems with thieves pinching young buds from their
paeonies?

I have two fabulous plants which are very close to our pavement boundary,
and I have noticed that a lot of the 'ready-to-burst' buds have suddenly
mysteriously vanished - and no, not pulled off, but actually cut neatly from
the bush. It makes me very sad, as they are one of my favourite flowers and
are so full of blooms this time of year, but this year they are more a mound
of green than cerise...

Just how low will some people stoop? (and I don't mean stooping to paeony
height ;-) )

Jo
from deepest Daventry in the Midlands.

p.s. And this wasn't a one-off - since noticing it last week, even more have
been pruned this week...

anyone got any tips on good cctv systems?

"Jo" wrote in message
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Has anyone else had problems with thieves pinching young buds from
their
paeonies?

Yes, I have had that problem this year. I went inside to moan to my wife
and found her putting them in a vase...

Sorry to hear about your problem though.

Neil

"Jo" wrote in message
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Has anyone else had problems with thieves pinching young buds from their
paeonies?

I have two fabulous plants which are very close to our pavement boundary,
and I have noticed that a lot of the 'ready-to-burst' buds have suddenly
mysteriously vanished - and no, not pulled off, but actually cut neatly
from
the bush. It makes me very sad, as they are one of my favourite flowers
and
are so full of blooms this time of year, but this year they are more a
mound
of green than cerise...

Just how low will some people stoop? (and I don't mean stooping to paeony
height ;-) )

Jo
from deepest Daventry in the Midlands.

p.s. And this wasn't a one-off - since noticing it last week, even more
have
been pruned this week...

anyone got any tips on good cctv systems?


How about some night vision goggles and a good slingshot to learn the
buggers? :-)

Sam

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anyone got any tips on good cctv systems?

Have a look in Maplin. If you are really keen on catching the culprit
you could link a mini camera (about £50 for a colour one with
half-decent resolution) with a p.i.r. detector and connect to your
computer, if you have a good deal of spare disc space.

You'd have to find a newsgroup which specialises in this sort of thing
to get a recommendation for a program to control the recording - you
don't want it running all the time.

Another thing worth trying, if you suspect the dirty deeds are done in
the depths of darkness, is to set a combined p.i.r./QH floodlight so
that the sensitive area includes the paeony but no higher, because you
don't want it switching on every time someone walks by.

Either alone (when it may alert you) or in conjunction with cctv, it
would seem a good idea.

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