ANN ARBOR, MI – Thousands of blooming peony plants were destroyed overnight at the University of Michigan’s W.E. Upjohn Peony Garden. Tony Kolenic, director of Matthaei Botanical Gardens and ...

We're told the vandalism was reported to police just after 6 a.m. on Sunday morning. DPSS officers saw about 250 peony plants on the north side of the garden – about a third of the garden's 800 ...

The Peony Garden's first flowers were donated to the university over 100 years ago, and peak bloom was expected during the May 30-June 1 weekend. "What happened here was an act of disregard, ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – The nation’s largest peony garden was vandalized over the weekend as protesters sheared the flowers from about one third of the blooming plants. The vandalism was discovered ...

The W.E. Upjohn Peony Garden features the largest collection of historic - pre-1950 - herbaceous peonies in North America, 'and likely the world,' curator David Michener said.

Around 250 peony plants on the north side of the garden had most of their flowers cut. The garden has around 800 peony plants. Police said 100 paper signs were left throughout the area.

Approximately 250 peony plants — or about one-third of the peony plants on the north side of the garden — were discovered with most of their flowers cut off at about 6:14 a.m. Sunday.

The Peony Garden is such an attraction regionally, nationally, and now internationally that we get between 70 and 80,000 people in *** very few weeks. That means we have to bus people in on the ...