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May 30, 2011

The Case of the Purloined Peonies

I'm really enjoying this story about an elusive garden flower thief who has roamed undetected through a particularly floral neighborhood with impunity for more than a decade:

“He does this every year, starting with the peonies,” said Marcia Stein, one of the flower thief’s victims, who lost a bunch of blooms this month. “Last year, he stole all of my peonies.”
Gardeners say the suspect has expensive taste. He ignores lesser flowers in favor of pricier blooms. (At Johnson’s Florist and Garden Center in Cleveland Park, peonies sell for $8.99 a stem.)
And when he steals them, he’s not gentle: He rips the blooms right out of the ground.
For years, the gardeners kept quiet, fearful that publicity would encourage more thefts. The Newark Street Garden, with 220 plots, is one of the biggest community gardens in the District, and the gardeners know it’s an attractive target for thieves in search of many crops. So, they installed elaborate fencing to protect their flowers. They laid elaborate traps in their plots. Some installed locks. A few years ago, a group even held a series of early morning stakeouts.
Flowers continued to disappear.

 

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