Someone picked all the flowers out of my "garden" in riften. They were there yesterday, and gone today. Anyone know if these respawn? My wife will be very, very dissappointed if they don't...lol

It's the same as farms, they will respawn in 20 or so days.

I once picked up a staff that allowed you to lay the equivalent of fire land-mines where you aimed it. If you can find it, that should dissuade them. As the fellow from Freeside said: 'An armed society is a polite society'.