PORT TOWNSEND — Police are looking for vigilante plant-pruners who took shears to the arbor path in Chetzemoka Park over the weekend.
They hacked hanging roses and other plants that city crews have spent years cultivating.
In what appeared to be a crude attempt at beautifying the park, city parks crews discovered Monday that someone had pruned extensively from trellises containing wisteria and other plants near the park entrance, city officials said.
The plant-pruners left two Dumpsters’ worth of debris neatly stacked at the other end of the park.
“Apparently, somebody thought they were helping,” Parks Superintendent Steve Corra said Tuesday. “They did a real bad job. They pretty much left nothing unhacked.”
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