Some jerk cut down our oleander

So, Amy and I get back from a run last night, and Amy goes around the back of the house to move a plant up to the front yard. This particular plant (a purple heart) had previously been eaten by the javalina that roam around the neighborhood, and we fenced in a bit of the front yard to keep them out.

Then she noticed that someone had cut down all the oleander bushes.

All 8 plants have been cut down, to about 1″ off the roots, and their foliage is just lying there. The cuts are clean, like they were done with pruners.

So, we made a visit to our neighbor who lives behind us and put up the wood fence. It turns out that he had some of his palo verde trees cut through as well a few days ago (we don’t know when this was done, as we were both out of the house on saturday).

(some history – David, our neighbor, planted the oleander before we moved in, and was going to put up a wall, but there was some misunderstanding about property lines, but that goes resolved by the builders. So he put up the existing wooden fence inside where the previous fenceposts were, which put the oleanders between his fence and ours.)

So, I called the police and filed a report. I’m going to call the builders and see if they know anything about this happening.

This makes me mad… it’s just senseless destruction of plants, which are hard to grow here.