Karma - how about this a couple of weeks ago i took the waste out to our compost bin.This is situated at the top of our garden over the road.We live in a sort of circle,with a small wood opposite each house.Our land is a woodland walkway if you like.So i finds out some numpty has took a fancy to a very large fern and nicked it during the night.
So fast forward to this morning,my wife takes out the waste today and comes back in with the news,they have taken a NEW ZEALAND TREE FERN.worth about £60 from any garden centre.
Then she informs me that it does not matter because unbeknown to me it was dead.It caught a spell of frost and damp last year like many other in this part of Yorkshire .Karma eh.