Neighbours horrified as ‘phantom plant plucker’ goes on rampage stealing prized pots and uprooting shrubs from gardens

A GREEN-fingered bandit dubbed the “phantom plant plucker” has been blamed for a spree of raids on her neighbours’ gardens.Miffed residents have had prized pot vegetation and succulents pinched and shrubs uprooted by the dastardly digger.

Round 250 people have been warned to be looking for the suburban prowler throughout the St Andrews district of Sydney, Australia.Livid victims want her to leaf it out – and now they’ve helped police root out the alleged perpetrator.“We had fairly a couple of hits from her,” Rob Lillis knowledgeable 9 Now Information.“Fairly a few pots went first, merely small pots, enough for her to carry I suppose and the other vegetation have been merely random.“She simply pulled them out right here and there. They don’t seem to be nice worth however it’s kind of of delight that you’ve got in it and also you cherish these issues.”He checked his security cameras and observed a hooded decide lugging a bag over her shoulder.Rob talked about: “As quickly as I noticed her camouflaged I assumed, yeah, we’re not the primary ones she’s hit.”In the meantime footage from one different avenue confirmed a decide bending proper right down to pluck vegetation collectively together with her bare palms and stashing them in a bag.Some raids have taken place at midnight and others in broad daylight, according to tales.Victims say the bandit leaves dying vegetation alone and goes for the vigorous specimens.Andrew Waterson talked about: “The main time they hit us, they principally took ten vegetation all alongside proper right here.“Even received right here down the driveway a bit and took among the many ones from there. My partner misplaced all of her ones which were flowering.“They received right here once more subsequent week after which ripped out a wide range of the succulents that we had, ripped out the succulents, took the bits they wanted and threw the remaining once more down.“One of many ones she knocked off, my partner had spent three years shaping it to the “One of many ones she knocked off, my spouse had spent three years shaping it to the way in which she needed after which gone, then simply got here and ripped the entire plant out by the foundation.”He added he has been pressured to place in security cameras and a fence he didn't want.Pay Heaney talked about his partner had misplaced a couple of of her vegetation too.He talked about: “She obtained this one and it bloomed and she or he actually cherished it, and she or he got here out and all it was was a pot with a giant gap and filth on the bottom the place it was once. She was actually upset about it.”Sherrie Robinson has been charged with 4 counts of larceny, or theft of personal property.In September we knowledgeable how a thief swiped a family’s prized window planter and left a bizarre Tinkerbell card and £15 in cash in Penzance, Cornwall.In the meantime swingers’ favourite pampas grass is now so trendy it has sparked a felony offense wave as crooks promote stolen vegetation for £150.