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* During the Underworld arc in Literature/SwordArtOnline, Kirito takes care of a bunch of flowers that he cared for as a graduation gift for his teacher in the Swordcraft Academy. However, it's trampled by two rival students he and Eugeo had a beef with. That said, it is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as Kirito has his first taste of what Incarnation can do by restoring those flowers to their original condition.

* One gag in ''ComicBook/AchilleTalon'' involves Achille trying to bring a bucket of fresh, quality soil to his fancy love interest Virgule de Guillemets. His [[TheAllegedCar car]] malfunctions and he has to ask a truck with a load of mud to tow him to his destination. Unfortunately, when they arrive at Virgule's, the lorry unloads all the soil on her philodendrons, ruining them.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin has destroyed his mother's flower garden on several occasions. Once trying to parachute out of his room, and landing in the rosebushes, and in another instance while trying to dig for a pool.

* A mild example in ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp''. Lady accidentally digs out one of the Darlings' tulips while burying a bone. She puts it back quickly, only she put it upside-down.
** In the movie's sequel Tramp's son Scamp does this and even sings about it during "A World Without Fences."
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', Tigger "bounces" Rabbit and destroys his garden.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'', [[MeaningfulName Flora]], the good fairy with plant powers, laments her nicest flowers always being ruined by [[BigBad Maleficent]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' feature ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', vegetable gardens are SeriousBusiness in W&G's neighborhood, so the pair make money removing rabbits off people's gardens. Then the eponymous Were-Rabbit arrives and destroys gardens all over town, which is treated by the populace as akin to a murderous rampage.

* In ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', Ape goes, well, ape when Shep the elephant drops a wooden log on his rosebed.

* Mentioned in ''Film/LatterDays'':

* ''Literature/AngelinaBallerina'''s first book has her so [[ActingOutADaydream distracted by her daydreams of dance]] she falls into her neighbor's pansies and gets a scolding for it.
* In the ''Literature/BrotherCadfael'' mystery ''The Rose Rent'', a large and beautiful rosebush is repeatedly attacked in attempts to destroy it, as its flowers are the subject of a sentimental codicil in a property bequest.
* Two examples involving the gardens and grounds of [[WizardingSchool Unseen University]] in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''.
** In ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'', a stampede of fleeing gargoyles destroys the lawn, a sight which makes the head gardener ''eat'' his rake in frustration.
** In ''Literature/ReaperMan'', the zombified Windle Poons ends up emerging from the earth right under the immaculately tended lawn. Unlike the previous gardener, Modo the dwarf seems to take it surprisingly well.

* In one episode of ''Series/TheInbetweeners'', the boys take up the sport of destroying daffodils with a golf club, and repeatedly vandalize a particular flowerbed in the neighborhood. Will is skeptical at first but eventually joins in the fun, but the owner of the flowerbed catches on, figures out where they live, and stands outside screaming at them threateningly, trapping them inside for hours as they pretend not to be home.
* In ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'''s episode "A Child in Need," Banner is working as a middle school groundskeeper. As he plants flowers at the end of one school day, the final bell rings and scores of kids race from the building, trampling the flowers and ruining all his hard work. As the last of them pass by, he hollers, "You missed one!"
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E7Justice Justice]]" Wesley Crusher gets the death penalty after tripping and falling into a flower bed on a planet where AllCrimesAreEqual.

* The opening scene of ''VideoGame/DisgaeaD2ABrighterDarkness'' features Flonne watering her flower garden when Laharl enters the scene [[ColonyDrop riding on a meteor]]... and then Etna enters, also riding a meteor.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Cloud falls through the roof of Aerith's church and into a bed of flowers.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', the Hila Rao Shrine sits in the middle of a field of flowers that is constantly watched by a woman named Magda, and [[BerserkButton boy is the lady hell bent on averting this trope]]. Stepping on them repeatedly will send her in an UnstoppableRage and she will ram on the intruder to punish him for his trampling. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'' follows up several years later, revealing that Magda turned the field into a proper flower garden with Princess Zelda's help -- and then Sky Island chunks fell and crushed much of it.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'', a hapless Toad in Bouquet Gardens is seen bawling over the loss of his precious flower garden, lost to the heavy winds that blowed over the level (courtesy of the Fan sticker). Fortunately, Mario can restore the ravaged parterre with flower stickers.
* One of the many acts of vandalism ''VideoGame/{{Paperboy}}'' can commit is riding over flowerbeds.

* Steam Gardens, in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' features a secret flower field that is very dear the the Steam Gardeners' robotic hearts. Unfortunately, it turns out the field has been found by Torkdrift, a daisy-like [=UFO=] that proceeded to vacuum all its flowers. Mario manages to destroy the monstrosity, but not before it managed to destroy most of the parterre.

* In the pilot of ''WesternAnimation/IronManTheAnimatedSeries'', the BigBad is enraged that a minion of his killed off his begonias while cooling off his drink using cryokinetics.
* This is a RunningGag on ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'', with Kaeloo's flowers constantly being destroyed by the main four's antics (either accidentally or on purpose).
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PacMan'' episode "Hocus Pocus Pac-Man", Pac-Baby eats his mother's entire flower garden.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'', the kids accidentally destroy Violet Stimpleton's flowerbed, preventing her from winning a gardening contest that she wins every year. They make it up to her by winning a go-cart race and giving her the prize.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS1E01TommysFirstBirthday Tommy's First Birthday]]", Spike rolls around in the flowerbed of Didi's garden, which is one of the reasons why Tommy wants to eat dog food so he can become a dog. As Spike rolls around in the flowerbed, Lou scolds him to get out.

** Homer ruins ''a'' garden in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E4TheresNoDisgraceLikeHome There's No Disgrace Like Home]]" while taking his family on a peeking tour of the neighborhood's houses, but not the one he meant to.

** Squidward's begonias gets trampled again in "Sportz?" because of Patrick's and [=SpongeBob=]'s sports antics.
** And AGAIN in "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS9E11SpongeBobYoureFired SpongeBob, You're Fired!]]"