Somebody had to see or hear something, hopefully you'll come across a neighbor that saw something. Sucks a little being new and not being sure who you can talk to. Any chance the previous people had a regular landscaper they used or one on your block people most use? BTW, who the hell takes their tree when they move anyway? If they didn't remove it themselves try and track them down and maybe it was removed "twice" by whoever they hired to do it. This wasn't kids or crackheads...either a landscaper or a psycho neighbor. Maybe you'll recognize it on a lawn around the corner or close by. Good Luck!!

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The previous owner of the house had a sentimental attachment to her tree. It was actually in the agreement of sale that she would take it with her.

Oh ok, there goes my new theory that a tree-hating neighbor took the old tree and then the new tree away...

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That is pretty pathetic IMO.

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No, it's not. People get attached to all sorts of things, and for the strangest reasons, all of the time. So, she was attached to a tree. Whatever floats your boat.

To the OP, sorry that someone stole your tree. My guess, based on something that happened to me, it was a landscaper. At my old house I had a very valuable Japanese Garnet Maple that we had been growing for 8 or so years, a dogwood, a flowering crabapple, a pear tree that bore fruit, a bonsai tree and a crepe myrtle. I took pains to explain to my buyer what they were, how to treat them, and how to actually ripen the pears. My old house was nicely landscaped, and we used Belgian block to separate the garden areas from the lawn itself--it was actually very nice looking. Well late last summer I had a new landscaper cut my lawn once--he never came back. But when I went to my house on Labor Day weekend, I noticed something missing--the freaking Belgian block around the bonsai tree, closest to the corner of the property line, nearest the street. Someone noticed a black truck on the driveway next to my house, but not for long!

To the folks that say "OH, no one likes trees in the city", waa waa waa--this is the NE, there are lots of trees.

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Yes, yes, and yes. I heard of it. My girlfriend a block down from me they stole her Dogwood tree. That was like a few days after they planted it. Last year.

I think you have moved fairly close to me. Not sure what hundred block you are on.

Alot of us neighbors on like Magee, Fanshawe, Unruh, Rawle have had lawn ornaments stolen. Most always expensive ones. Somebody knows what they are stealing. I'm sorry that happened to you. It makes ya fume. Just my opinion but that's someone came right up on your property for something or saw ya planting it and eyeballed it. Not just someone drove around stealing trees. I walk alot and noticed some truly beautiful lawn ornaments virtually left alone when on my block BAM I mean one lady had this huge, heavy fountain for like thirty years. It had to take a few guys to move it. Gone!

One of my rinky dink recently stolen ornaments ironically a friend of mine found. On a mailbox and saw the person left it there. I know who that is.

Again, I'm sorry. Travis, it's not the whole neighborhood. Keep posting, O.K.?
Was it on a Friday ya found it missing? Who is mowing your lawn?

Have some compassion, you!

Around the block some lady put her husbands ashes under a fig tree. She moved too. That tree is still there so it can't be Travis's.

You wait, Cerberus. You will be elderly some day and want your tank to go with you.

Compassion?? I know not such word!

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This can happen anywhere. Grew up near Glen Foerd in Torresdale and had a 12' pine stolen from our landscaped front lawn a week before Xmas! Sawed right down...

This was one of two evenly spaced trees, so after the theft, the one off-centered tree looked pretty rigodamndiculous. If I recall correctly, it costed like $400 to replace it. This was in the mid 1980's.

Someone had a wonderful Xmas that year.

[quote=H.E.Pennypacker;530802]This can happen anywhere. Grew up near Glen Foerd in Torresdale and had a 12' pine stolen from our landscaped front lawn a week before Xmas! Sawed right down...
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Heh, I had a neighbor offer me a live tree one year, after the Christmas season. They took down their decorations and had no where to plant it, so I accepted. We planted it on our 6 foot front lawn in Castor Gardens, about 3 feet from the sidewalk. From then on, every December I had to sweat it out that it would get chopped down from our front. As if it wasn't enough of a risk sitting out there, we used to decorate and light the tree for every holiday, but all we lost was a few dollar store items a couple of times. Just went by recently, and that tree is still growing and healthy.