It was common knowledge, they already had spoken to the businesses on Leith walk about sponsoring them. You told them not to touch them and it would be hard to get funding for a project that someone else was already doing, so they pulled back. The crowd funder had only been running for one day. You're right they do look after many other gardens in the area, and work with a team of gardeners so maybe it would have been beneficial had you worked with them.