Ekka I agree with you that this decline has been going on for many years, and 2007 may be too late, PHC could have helped some of thesse trees...as you say no one wants to invest in the upkeep of what are apparently green healthy trees!
The crazy thing is it is PHC not expensive in resources or capital, one water filled traffic barrier per tree with a weeper hose running under properly spread aged mulch, quaterly soil treatments all of which can be included into the irrigation water in the barrier, the water coming from rainwater tanks, or filtered grey water...it doesn't even take much imagination to throw a few ideas out right here. Whilst the local community remains uninformed, uninvolved, and marginalised by the operation of Council I hold little hope for those trees...again accepting that if I were on site I might take a more pessimistic view about their short term life span.
__________________ Sean  Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran
Last edited by Sean Freeman : 6th July 2007 at 04:28 AM.
Reason: As previous post incorrect id of tree in photo
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