Re: Tree butchery

Here, in Seattle, we have a group called Plant
Amnesty.
Not sure if they're in the bay area, too.  Their
mission is "to end the senseless torture and
mutilation of trees and shrubs."  Check them out at 
plantamnesty.org  They also have a plant rescue list.

cheers!
Bridget
Seattle, WA (it's partly sunny)

--- Bracey Tiede <tiede@pacbell.net> wrote:

> Moira,
> 
> Kiwis are no worse than Americans.  I drive around
> the SF Bay Area sadly
> noting the wholesale deformation of all kinds of
> trees.  In some
> neighborhoods that haven't undergrounded their
> utility (power, phone, cable
> tv) lines, the power company has come through and
> created big vee-shaped
> holes in the middle of street trees to keep them out
> of the power lines.
> There is a Chinese elm down the street that will
> probably just split in half
> this year because the majority of the tree is
> hanging out over the street
> and not over the trunk.  Palm trees are beheaded. 
> It's horrendous.
> 
> Our MG group is thinking of having an 'Ugly Tree'
> contest this winter so we
> can post photos of what not to do on our website. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Bracey
> San Jose CA
> 
> 
> (snip)
> 
> As a nation, Kiwis are real bad, where trees are
> concerned, at planting
> species too big for the property and then not even
> merely topping them to
> fit, but mutilating them further by wholesale
> cutting back of large limbs,
> with no attempt to leave a side branch at the tip
> -just a hideous stump-.
> This often seems to he done without rhyme or reason
> almost as though they
> either hate or fear the tree and all too often leads
> to the entry of
> diseases. In the course of pruning professionally I
> have several times been
> approached to perform such drastic surgery, but when
> questioned, the owners
> almost always admitted the tree was not actually
> causing any problem of
> shading or suchlike. The owner of one garden said
> vaguely she thought all
> trees needed to  be cut from time to time! (the
> victim I saved in this case
> was a handsome and not overwhelming Liquidamber well
> away from the house and
> the neighbours. Fifteen years later I am pleased to
> note it is still
> standing unharmed..
> 
> 



		
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