FredCasa Posted March 3, 2024 Share Posted March 3, 2024 Very sad. https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/peckham/peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden-and-scrawl-foul-graffiti-on-parks-rat-bait-boxes/ Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/341743-peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froglander Posted March 3, 2024 Share Posted March 3, 2024 How revolting. I wonder if there are cameras in the area? Does this mean that they snuck in at night to wreak this havoc? Maybe the US Embassy will donate some money to help. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/341743-peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden/#findComment-1657900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alice Posted March 3, 2024 Share Posted March 3, 2024 (edited) What are you talking about Peckham Vandals? Edited March 3, 2024 by alice Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/341743-peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden/#findComment-1657903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froglander Posted March 3, 2024 Share Posted March 3, 2024 7 minutes ago, alice said: If the headline bothers you, Contact Southwark Newsas it’s their headline. Would it be better if it said East Dulwich borders instead of Peckham? 8 minutes ago, alice said: What are you talking about Peckham Vandals? Sounds more like your local animal liberation front Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/341743-peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden/#findComment-1657905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCasa Posted March 3, 2024 Author Share Posted March 3, 2024 7 minutes ago, alice said: What are you talking about Peckham Vandals? Sounds more like your local animal liberation front Agreed - the ratboxes are not the main problem. This is the woman who led the replanting, quoted by Southwark News: “Predicting it will take three years to regrow the garden, Nancy said: “I am sick about what’s happened in the American Garden.” Nancy believes the plants were worth between £10,000 and £15,000 but even more concerning is whether the garden will flourish come summer. She said: “Will they survive? I don’t know, only time will tell…. and even if some of them do, it will take another three years for them to gain the growth they had.” Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/341743-peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden/#findComment-1657906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kford Posted March 3, 2024 Share Posted March 3, 2024 Those rat boxes have had that painted on them for months and months. Looks like pruning otherwise Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/341743-peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden/#findComment-1657918 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alice Posted March 3, 2024 Share Posted March 3, 2024 Yes I was intrigued. Strange cannot see any evidence of vandalism - the fenced off beds are still fenced off and everything looks normal. But then I’m no gardener. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/341743-peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden/#findComment-1657935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cactus Posted March 4, 2024 Share Posted March 4, 2024 Looks rather like the plants have been hard pruned in error?! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/341743-peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden/#findComment-1658083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCasa Posted March 4, 2024 Author Share Posted March 4, 2024 This seems to be a complete non-story. We asked several of the park staff today - nobody had heard of any recent vandalism. The American Garden looks pretty much unchanged. So much for reliable journalism. Memo to self: never repeat a newspaper story before you've checked it. 1 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/341743-peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden/#findComment-1658095 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Aelfheah Posted March 5, 2024 Share Posted March 5, 2024 Southwark News is a ridiculous, sensationalist rag. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/341743-peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden/#findComment-1658181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
malumbu Posted March 5, 2024 Share Posted March 5, 2024 I saw a documentary once where a student had had his room vandalised, to shock of a girlfriend. But it turned out that it wasn't, the room always looked like that. Or maybe it was a Yellow Pages advert. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/341743-peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden/#findComment-1658195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
d walker Posted March 5, 2024 Share Posted March 5, 2024 I'm in the park daily and walk past the American garden. To me it looks like all gardens do coming out of winter, the perennial plants have all died back and hopefully will bloom again come spring/summer. The evergreen rhododendrons are all there, waiting to bloom in May. So I'm not sure what Southwark News is on about, perhaps they needed to fill space with a non story?! Or they were in a completely different park! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/341743-peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden/#findComment-1658253 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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