You can help catch a Christmas thief!
Sometime between late Christmas Eve and mid-day Boxing Day, our garden was pillaged for souvenirs. The garden is well known in Austin’s gardening circles… it is the creation of KLRU’s “Central Texas Gardener” host, Tom Spencer, as well as the site of his former home. Items that were taken were garden-related, likely taken by someone with knowledge of the garden, while other items were left undisturbed.
If you know of anyone who has recently acquired these items, a reward is being offered for information leading to the safe return of the stolen goods. Please call 512/771-1776 or email aria@kilpatrick.org.
And thank you to Renee Studabaker (@reneesroots) of the Statesman’s Renee’s Roots blog for the post to get the word out about this crime. You can also find out more at Tom’s website.
Can you earn the reward by helping to locate the stolen items?
Some of the missing items are pictured below…
Stolen bench... do you know someone who recently aquired a set of these?
Stolen mirror garden globe.
The stolen blue-glazed terra-cotta garden mobile once hung at the edge of the corvered porch.
Two heavy metal planters were stolen in addition to the mirror globe.
A closer view of the patio mobile.
More on the garden:
Fox 7 picked up the story, of course the home is not Hyde Park as they said, but I appreciate their help in getting the word out.
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Checked back to see what happened – sure hope the benches and art are returned to the garden. There’s something especially disjointed when theft occurs in a place designed for and dedicated to peace, love & understanding. Good luck.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
I am So sorry! I can see your house from my back window…I live on Fiset, and I have noticed people working over there, but haven’t paid much attention, since it seemed legit! Sorry!! I will snoop more!! …and I will stop by and introduce myself!
Thank you, Amy! We’re doing a ton of work to the house, so workers are usual. This happened when the workers (and we) were on Christmas holiday. Do come introduce yourself sometime!
Annie, you’ve expressed the sentiment well. We purchased the property to have a safe, happy place and it does feel very violated now.
Pam, thank you for the link! At the very least, we’d like the garden thieves to miss the opportunity to share their newly obtained treasures openly with the garden community (which is an extremely kind and tight bunch from what we’ve seen so far)!
We are saddened by this needless act but are still happy to be joining the Shoalmont & gardening communities!