California state park's viral flower field destroyed overnight

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https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/california-park-flower-destroyed-21953424.php


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On Monday morning, California State Parks chief ranger Mike Dippel began receiving alarming phone calls: Visitors reported that someone had chopped down all the flowers at Calla Lily Valley, a coastal ravine in Garrapata State Park on the north end of Big Sur where bunches of blooming calla lilies amass a mountain of social media virality every spring.


It looks like somebody took scissors or some sort of gardening tool and got rid of the flowering parts of all the lilies,” Dippel told SFGATE in a phone interview. “They didn’t dig into the ground and rip the whole plant out. They just cut the tops off, if that makes sense.”

Park officials are unsure who the culprit or culprits are, Dippel said, or exactly when the flowers were cut. It’s also unknown what motives might have been behind the act, but Dippel has some ideas.

“I can’t speculate, but the calla lily is a nonnative plant to the region, and there are some folks that probably don’t like that it’s here,” Dippel said. (Calla lilies are considered an invasive plant in California.) “And the other aspect is that the place has really exploded on social media.”