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Michael White, who lives across the street from the Gardens, said he was “very distressed” to learn of the vandalism.

“I just don’t understand what anyone’s motivation could be to do something like this and harm the most beautiful and innocent of living things,” she added. “It feels like a funeral for the trees,” she said in an interview Wednesday. The Gardens reopened to the public Wednesday, and some visitors came to mourn the state of the trees.Īmy Cahoon, visiting Halifax from the Ottawa Valley, said she cancelled her plans for the day to spend time at the Gardens after learning about the damage. The public gardens were closed to the public throughout the day Tuesday while police investigated and gardeners worked to assess and repair the damage. Osmond said that after evaluating the damage, he expects the financial cost of the vandalism to be “hundreds of thousands” of dollars.Ī commissionaire working security at the Gardens noticed the damage at 7 a.m. “Girdling a tree usually kills it,” he said, because it cuts off the flow of nutrients and water within a tree.

”They intentionally came out to damage this tree, to try and kill this tree.“ “Somebody who did this knew exactly what they were doing,“ Osmond told reporters Wednesday, gesturing to a 200-year-old weeping beech tree. Kevin Osmond, senior supervisor of Halifax’s urban forestry department, says the girdling appears to have been done with a hatchet or small axe. If the cambium layer - the part of the tree that produces new wood - is damaged enough, the tree will die. The bark cutting - called girdling - is a method used to kill trees without cutting them down. It’s unclear how many trees will be lost due to the damage. Sometime between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, strips of bark were removed around the trunk of many trees, most of which are between 50 and 200 years old, police said.

HALIFAX - The individual or group responsible for the damage to about 30 historic trees in the Halifax Public Gardens “knew exactly what they were doing,” the city’s senior urban forestry supervisor said Wednesday.