It has been around a month since my garden at work has been destroyed. The garden was sprayed, so most plants are definitely dead. There are a few plants coming up which I would like to dig up, but other than that it is gone. The facilities manager has ignored my requests for additional information, so any guess as to what happened is speculation.
On to the good news. A redditor that regularly spends time on r/nativeplantgardening told me that a podcast had seen my post on Reddit and they asked me to reach out to them. They offered to send me plants for free to plant at my property. There are four flats of 50 plugs each totalling 200 plants! (Picture attached to the post).
They stated that they did not need recognition as that is not why they sent me the plants. Honestly, I cried a bit when I read that. Even after years of moderating and gardening with native plants, I am still struck by the selfless and generosity of people in this community.
I'd also like to thank everyone else who commented on my original post with their support!
by robsc_16
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Oh, wow!!! Hopefully you can get the facilities manager to stop spraying your natives now.
I somehow didn’t see the original post until now. It’s crazy that they just destroyed such an intentional and well maintained planting bed and even stole the sign (which is just a really weird thing to do). I hope you enjoy planting all of your new plants!
Time to find a new job with a boss that isn’t a little bitch. I would be inconsolable after this. I am so sorry you had to grow through this.
Good on the podcast for not doing this for the publicity – but it’s killing me not to know bc I desperately need more plant podcasts to listen to!
This is what I call community
The facilities manager has refused to offer any explanation for what happened?
It sounds to me like they were involved in the destruction.
Do you think these new plants will be safe from attack?