PLANTS have gone missing overnight from front gardens at Highfield Drive, Farnworth.
Residents woke up this morning to find a trail of soil in the street and holes in their gardens where shrubs had stood on Monday.
Mrs Marie Grady spent nearly £40 on a cotoneaster about 12 months ago, which she says was a mass of red berries and just starting to look its best.
A furious Mrs Grady said: "It was there last night when I went to bed, but this morning it's gone. "There is soil all over the place. I am so incensed. The garden was looking really lovely."
Mrs Grady said several neighbours have also had plants stolen. A small conifer was dug up from one neighbour's garden and another neighbour had a patio tub full of plants taken.
Police have been notified.
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