But she wants to be clear — even if some commenters found the original tree to be “sad beige,” she was never depriving her daughter of color. Last year, Vivian had just turned 1, and ...

"It did cause significant damage, which is very, very sad," he said. However, Friday's loss is a fraction of the 20,000 trees which fell at the Royal Botanic Gardens during the Great Storm of 1987.