Where have ten of the potted plants gone?

On August 10^th, there were altogether 18 beautiful potted flowering plants on the footbridge, 9 on each side.

Today, August 30^th, 10 of them disappeared (within one night).

Throughout these 20 days, the flowers dropped off a lot when Typhoon Pabuk visited us twice and heavy rain fell for a few days. Later, the plants began to dry up and turned brown because nobody waters them. Now, few flowers can survive.

There may be three possible reasons for the disappearance of the potted plants:

(1) They are taken away to have new plants replaced and perhaps they will come back some time later.

(2) There may be too many potted plants on the footbridge which may overload it.

(3) They have been transferred to another place.

I learn from a newspaper several days ago that there was a similar case:

It so happened that in Tseung Kwan O, the District Board decided to make the district green with 90 potted trees (木蘭樹). They used half a million Hong Kong dollars for this. Owing to poor management, the plants died in three months’ time. The trees were replaced by a new kind of trees.

What a waste of SAR's money when the plants are neglected – without watering or adding nutrients to the soil!