To hate they stole my Holly

[MistyMistletoe]

I have a lovely Holly Bush, complete with red berries. Well actually I have several bushes, some with berries and some without.

These are next to a public footpath but the bushes are on my property as planted by myself and DH to edge our property quite a few years ago.

I saw someone rummaging on the other side of the edge and when I opened the front door to investigate further, they got in their car and drove off!

On perusing said said bush it was evident that clippers/secateurs had been used to prune!

This is not the first time I have been visited by green fingered foliage thiefs - some years ago at a previous home we had a full hedge of freshly planted firs stolen .

(I was inspired to post by a recent thread about someone stealing their homemade door wreath, cheeky feckers).

Should I not care & just share or aibu? It is after all the season of goodwill.

What have you had stolen from under your nose?

My first MN thread, laughter tear...

Ruby how inconciderate of them. Who wants a straggly & cherry less berryless bush, especially during Yuletide!

Indeed Ronald they could at least introduce themselves first!

It's surprising where good manners can get you these days Robot

Gaa thats so rude!

Glad you're having fun Down

We had a neighbour that used to come and cut the roses off our rose bush on our drive, it used to drive me dippy as I'm a "flowers look better on the bush" type person - DP used to tell me to ignore it as she was lovely and doted on DD.

I did say something when she came and dug up our snow drops because they'd get much better light in her garden!!!!

Actually I just remembered, she used to lop off loads of our lavender every year too, to make smelly bags for her drawers...

Oh my goodness 'mummy that is taking the proverbial. I know it's important to pick your battles, especially with your neighbours, but I would really struggle to turn a blind eye to all that.