I spent an hour yesterday clearing gravel from the church memorial garden (consecrated ground) to the gravel beds by the side, where smallish footprints on the single visible marker tells me that a child did the damage - this was at a wedding, in the church grounds. There was a whole bucket of rubbish left lying around, much of it candy wrappers and most of it in the memorial garden. Plus the large ficus (about 6ft and very heavy) had obviously been dumped in the pond. If my child started to behave that way in an ordinary garden, she would be out the door and off to bed before she knew what was happening - but hopefully I've trained her not to behave that way. To do it in a garden that is obviously consecrated is inexcusable. Children get blamed for a lot of things, but parental control has no substitute.

LTS