Prospect Park Landscaping Cutbacks May Anger Bridge Trolls

Park Managers fear that cutbacks to this year’s landscaping budget may result in disgruntled Bridge Trolls. 

“An uneasy peace was reached with the Troll population some years ago,” explains park landscape architect Hallvard Olhauser. “In return for spring plantings of flowering annuals in cement planters near the bridges, the Trolls agreed to stop eating livestock.” 

Due to cutbacks in the landscaping budget those plantings will be discontinued this year. “The Trolls didn’t ask for much.” said Olhauser, “If you ask me, this is pretty shortsighted.”

Pictured below is the empty planter near the Left Ridge Arch Bridge. Park attendees are advised not to bring goats, of either the billy- or nanny- variety, in the vicinity of any of the park’s many bridges.