Hi Agrippina- don't think there's any easy answer. If you can go to the length of a security camera it avoids the need for chains etc. and is less obtrusive. If you have one large statement pot you can always concrete it down and then use other pots to put inside it - easier if you want to change what's in it too. Sadly there are people out there who have no morals or conscience. It's not even about the cost of replacing items - most gardeners want their garden to look nice and often have plants or containers that have sentimental value.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It's very sad, but common these days. I was given three York stone troughs and had them along the drive.They were heavy empty and made heavier with bricks and compost. They disappeared over night and were on sale at a car boot sale nearby the next day plants and all!! Alerting the police (with photos and all) was no help. I could not even buy them back as they were overpriced.The thieves obiously knew what price they were empty, never mind filled! My drive is potless ever since.
Firebricks - those used inside electric central heating heaters are very heavy for their size and you will not be pinching a pot with 2 of those in it. Widely available
Also remove any care/description labels from the plant. Apparently a plant is most likely to be stolen if you keep the label on it.
We are a bit exposed to the back & there is no lighting. Hopefully the area is ok but I do worry a bit, so we got one of those movement sensor lights with camera. After a couple of months I looked at the sd card - didn't realise how much I moved around! We had to adjust the angle as it wasn't covering enough of the area across the back of the house.
Oh dear! Now it was at the correct angle every time the wind blew the light came on, - for several seconds & shining beautifully into our neighbours' house.
We turned it off!
Of course in their advertising picture the house has nothing around it to move in the breeze.
We once had a pot containing a buddleia in our front garden. Of course, they put their roots down for miles and they had gone right through the hole in the bottom and into the earth.
One bloke thought he'd pop it on the back of his flatbed lorry and drive off. His face as he tried to lift it, found it impossibly heavy, couldn't understand why, tried again and failed, looked up and saw me laughing at him was a picture.
Try superglue under the rim of the pot, laced with broken glass. Most casual thieves wont use gloves and the blood they spill and leave behind, is evidence, which if they are caught, will prove their guilt. One draw back though, you could be sued by the thief! Otherwise the steel cable method is probably best.
My method has been to balance empty glass bottles upside down against the back of the pots, a makeshift alarm so if anyone tries to take one I can jump out and give them a good old earful! (although it does make you paranoid everytime you hear a glass bottle). Not had any thefts since I set those up.
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Hi Agrippina- don't think there's any easy answer. If you can go to the length of a security camera it avoids the need for chains etc. and is less obtrusive. If you have one large statement pot you can always concrete it down and then use other pots to put inside it - easier if you want to change what's in it too. Sadly there are people out there who have no morals or conscience. It's not even about the cost of replacing items - most gardeners want their garden to look nice and often have plants or containers that have sentimental value.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It's very sad, but common these days. I was given three York stone troughs and had them along the drive.They were heavy empty and made heavier with bricks and compost. They disappeared over night and were on sale at a car boot sale nearby the next day plants and all!! Alerting the police (with photos and all) was no help. I could not even buy them back as they were overpriced.The thieves obiously knew what price they were empty, never mind filled! My drive is potless ever since.
Firebricks - those used inside electric central heating heaters are very heavy for their size and you will not be pinching a pot with 2 of those in it. Widely available
Also remove any care/description labels from the plant. Apparently a plant is most likely to be stolen if you keep the label on it.
We are a bit exposed to the back & there is no lighting. Hopefully the area is ok but I do worry a bit, so we got one of those movement sensor lights with camera. After a couple of months I looked at the sd card - didn't realise how much I moved around! We had to adjust the angle as it wasn't covering enough of the area across the back of the house.
Oh dear! Now it was at the correct angle every time the wind blew the light came on, - for several seconds & shining beautifully into our neighbours' house.
We turned it off!
Of course in their advertising picture the house has nothing around it to move in the breeze.
We once had a pot containing a buddleia in our front garden. Of course, they put their roots down for miles and they had gone right through the hole in the bottom and into the earth.
One bloke thought he'd pop it on the back of his flatbed lorry and drive off. His face as he tried to lift it, found it impossibly heavy, couldn't understand why, tried again and failed, looked up and saw me laughing at him was a picture.
I like that one Verd, what about practicing your darts......??
Try superglue under the rim of the pot, laced with broken glass. Most casual thieves wont use gloves and the blood they spill and leave behind, is evidence, which if they are caught, will prove their guilt. One draw back though, you could be sued by the thief! Otherwise the steel cable method is probably best.
My method has been to balance empty glass bottles upside down against the back of the pots, a makeshift alarm so if anyone tries to take one I can jump out and give them a good old earful! (although it does make you paranoid everytime you hear a glass bottle). Not had any thefts since I set those up.