Beware there’s a horticultural thief in Park Slope and he or she is grabbing plants, flowers, buds and bulbs from local gardens and stoops. From the Brooklyn Paper:

A green-thumbed burglar is on the loose in Park Slope, striking fear in the roots of plants, and forcing owners to safeguard their property by any means necessary.

Victims say that the bandit has been stealing buds and bulbs for some time in and around an the area where Sixth, St. Marks and Flatbush avenues converge.

And the thief isn’t discriminating, snatching all manner of flora from stoops or front gardens, and forcing owners to tether their pots with sturdy cables, or even cement them firmly to the ground.