Norma MacLeod just wanted her local bus stop to look beautiful.
For over 20 years she tended two flower displays near her cottage in Auchterhouse, brightening travellers’ days, while her partner cut grass nearby.
But she has now had enough after thieves stole her flowers twice in one week.
Three of the 67-year-old’s prized geraniums have gone from the flower pots and when she replaced them, the brazen thief returned, taking the soil as well as the replanted flowers.
Mrs MacLeod now says she will not bother replacing the plants, which she said people who use the bus stop really enjoyed.
She told The Courier: “My partner cuts the grass near the bus station and tended two flower pots in tyres there, just to make the area more attractive.
“A lot of people come through the area and use the bus stop, so it is nice to brighten it up.
“We’ve been doing it for at least 20 years and from time to time there has been vandalism and plants have gone missing.
“But this week my flowers got pinched three big red geraniums. I re-soiled and replanted the flowers.
“But they were taken again soil and all this time.
“It is a shame. I’m not going to replace them again. The flowers look nice and I think people really like them, but it is not worth it.”
Mrs MacLeod now believes that organised flower thieves may be responsible for the thefts.
“I don’t know who could have done it, but the fact that they took the soil as well makes me think that they are into their gardening.
“I don’t think perhaps that people realised that it wasn’t a council flowerbed, that I put the work in and the plants down on my own.”