Elaine Alexander said she and her husband heard car doors at the time but assumed it was the neighbours. But when they woke, their Hunt St gate was wide open and the sculpture, one of only two made, gone.
"Someone is setting up a very nice garden for themselves," she said.
The incident follows three thefts of plants from St Clair gardens.
Alan and Robyn Thomson had 14 40cm high libertia plants taken from their Norfolk St garden last weekend. The thieves left a trail of dirt up the street.
They said their neighbour had also had two plants stolen from pots outside their house.
Mr Thomson described the thefts as "bizarre".
Ruth Kelsall contacted the ODT on Monday to say a 1.5m yucca and its terracotta pot were stolen from outside her Ravenswood Rd house on Easter Sunday night, a crime she described as "extremely bizarre".
When Mr Thomson learned of this theft, he was able to solve the crime: the pot had ended up on his neighbour's berm.
Upon hearing of the Thomson's plight, Bunnings Dunedin offered to replace their plants.
Operations manager Bruce Cockroft was "more than happy" to bring a positive end to their story.
Senior Sergeant Steve Aitken said police relied on the public to help solve crimes like these.
"There is always a challenge to resolve these, unless members of the public have seen something and report it," he said.
