Locals say tourists trashing flowerbeds to get Insta pictures

Residents have claimed "disrespectful” tourists, eager to take selfies at an Instagram hotspot, are trashing public flowerbeds.

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00:00The area, the other side of these flower borders here, there's a grass area, and they've been

00:10continually walking on that area, which has worn the grass all the way, and it's destroying

00:17the beauty of the area.

00:19They've now started standing in amongst the flower beds, trampling the flowers, and it's

00:26so disrespectful.

00:27I feel quite sad that the gardens are being ruined.

00:31It's mainly the tourists, it's not local vandalism, the tourists seem to think they can get these

00:40fantastic photographs from the flower beds, but in doing so, they're not respecting the

00:46flower beds, and they're standing on, in amongst them now, which is actually causing a real

00:51problem.

00:52I think we need better signage, there's hardly any sign saying keep off the flowers and keep

00:58off the grass, so some better signage all along this railings would be good.

01:11Tourists have been walking on them trying to get good photos, so understandably, having

01:16photos in the foreground and background of the photo looks quite nice, but as a result

01:21they've been stepping over the barrier, walking all over the grass, and in some cases, walking

01:27pathways through the flower beds.

01:30And what's the effect that this has on other people that like to enjoy the park?

01:34I think for locals who live around here and like the site, particularly the houses opposite,

01:40that detracts from the site.

01:44It also has to affect the flowers of bringing those people here in the first place, so it

01:51might be a price that we need to accept, but I do think that if there was a bigger sign

01:56or some more obvious signage down the paths, or maybe even a warden that was put in charge

02:01of the area around here, that this sort of thing could be kept at a minimum.