People either love them or hate them, but Garden Gnomes are never far from the headlines.
In a recent issue the gardening writer for the Maryland Gazette suggested that you should "Redo the landscape of your garden every few years. Add sculptures, fountains and tacky red garden gnomes to annoy your neighbors. ..."
Following the recent petrol shortages and panic buying at the pumps, Greg Wright said "I'm tempted to start a "panic" about possible disruption to the global supply of garden gnomes".
Meanwhile in Fairfax County the retired Deputy Fire Chief Stephen Smith of Fairfax City has a mystery to solve. "Did 20 out of about 50 small concrete gnome statutes he placed on a hill beside his driveway on Woodland Drive walk away on their own or did someone take them? "
He also said that, if the gnomes are returned, he would not press charges.
"If that happened, I'd be a happy camper," Smith said. "They can just bring them back and put them on my front lawn, at night, just like they took them."
Two women in Scotland have not been so lucky. They were arrested and charged following the discovery of an "Aladdin's cave" of more than 40 garden gnomes stolen from homes across central Scotland. The discovery of the garden ornaments at a house in Alloa followed a spate of thefts of ornamental gnomes, hedgehogs and rabbits from local gardens.
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