You have no idea how upsetting this photo is to me! This ‘was’ the 4th St. garden at City Hall I took care of for 15 years. My successor did not do this hack job. When I talked to the building security staff I was told about the storm damage that had to be cleaned up…the same man assured me that it would come back. He clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about. They had someone else come. Normally this is a Park’s responsibility. The 20′ tall Azara microphylla, to the right, clearly had a major failure, but they stripped every thing off. They cut a mature Viburnum ‘Onadaga’ to the ground, along with the lovely clumping bamboo, Borinda angustissima. God knows why they lollipopped the Western Red Cedar. The 15′ Magnolia grandiflora ‘Little Gem’ was roughly stripped as well leaving an intact top knot. WTF!!! The Roses along the perimeter wall and a Cardiocrinum hookerianum to the far left in the picture by the wall, were the only woody plants left undamaged by the ‘cleanup’.