Actually, to be fair, and I have chatted to the maintenance chaps...
The planting has been of sea friendly plants....I particularly enjoyed the wild poppies and grasses which were planted close to the Dunkirk Memorial....
I can see where they are coming from, and what they want to achieve...
My grump is the Sea-front is very controlled by those who must not be mentioned

roaring motor-way behind it...shabby underpass, etc...nothing cheerful where you can afford to have a coffee etc...
I would like to see something like the spoutig fountains, they have introduced by Folkestone Harbour.....great fun for both children and adults who have not grown up!!!!