Peckham vandals destroy American Garden

[FredCasa]

Very sad.

https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/peckham/peckham-vandals-destroy-american-garden-and-scrawl-foul-graffiti-on-parks-rat-bait-boxes/

[Froglander]

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.

[alice]

What are you talking about Peckham Vandals? 
 

Edited March 3, 2024 by alice

[Froglander]

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

 

[FredCasa]

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.”

[kford]

Those rat boxes have had that painted on them for months and months. Looks like pruning otherwise

[alice]

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. 

[cactus]

Looks rather like the plants have been hard pruned in error?!

 

[FredCasa]

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.

 

[Earl Aelfheah]

Southwark News is a ridiculous, sensationalist rag.

[malumbu]

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.

[d walker]

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!