What happened to it? Who did it?

As Brad said, it will look terrific - leafy stump to beat the band.

More importantly....Where is the part that was removed? Was it trashed?

Christopher

God awful shame. Seems the world is full of poor excuses for humans walking around.

I was up at our Rotary Park - about a mile and a half from my home. They had this beautiful, huge jade plant. Seriously, it was quite old and at least 7 foot tall. And a new lady, who has lived down here for about 6 months and calls herself a 'master gardener' chopped it down!! Nothing is left and none of us were given the chance to get clippings, which would have been large.

She also dug up the butterfly grove, hacked up the Sansevieria and ruined the desert roses. Arghhh! I am getting mad all over again! They told her she can no longer volunteer, but the damage is done.

Mara

Nice to see you back here too! Did you collect many seeds from interesting plants?

Stan...(I am correcting the name:)

Do you think it was pruning or vandalism? In either case, it has will to live and will grow into nice, old looking tree...Maybe you can keep eye on it and post photos of it's progress.

Rina

Rina, Yes to the seeds and I took 995 photos that I am editing. I have had a huge job so all the planting off seeds has been put off. They are sitting un organized in a box of "bio mass"

Rina, you don't get the joke. Stan was using a line from the comedian Rodney Dangerfield...

Christopher

Christopher

You are right, I didn't get the joke at first...but now I do. (I am familiar with R.D...still didn't click.)

Sorry Stan - really didn't pay attention (not the first time today :) I am correcting the post - don't want to re-name you.

Mara

Wish I was closer, I wouldn't mind to help (if you would have me) with the seeds.

Rina

Ugh! Awful. You should send her a bill for everything she trashed.

Yes, it'll come roaring back!

Josh

OMG!!!! I would be angry too! Yes it will come back, and that is always fun to watch, but she just trashed the whole top of it?!?!?! Some people just need a good ..... wait.... no... no violence... >:(

But what happened to Stan's jade?

Nothing nefarious happened to that Jade. It was just one of many around a French restaurant. Why this one was cut down I don't know. Might have been an accident.

Its just to the lower right - and out of view - of this picture I took of the hillside of palms.

Still, I thought what a show container plant that chopped Jade would have been.

I love bearded palms. But seriously, folks, as dastardly a crime against plants as you think this is, these plants are in no danger of extinction in California - they almost literally are all up and down the coast.

That pole to the left? As fake as possible,W.robusta. The Fronds were a stiff blue green. Sort of like an Aluminum Christmas tree in the Charley Brown Christmas Special.

Thanks for the reply, Stan.