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9th September 2007, 08:43 PM
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| PDF King & Arborist Extrodinaire  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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|  Adelaide city of trees Here are some of the photos from my visit to Adelaide last week. River Torrens 3mins from main Mall  Heading towards the Botanical gardens moderate sized Ficus macrophylla  Further up the same road check out the canopy coverage (that will be after bud break) over the road junction!  Plane tree drive very special....  Now this road was surfaced 97' very little impact on the bitumen or the small kerb....though I do think the trees have been very slightly buried.  Compare with the basal flare on these beauties in the gardens proper....  More to come.....
__________________ 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 |
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9th September 2007, 08:50 PM
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| Eric Frei Administrator - Brisbane L5 (Dip) Hort Cert III Arb + some  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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| Re: Adelaide city of trees Keep them coming, I feel at home! Frome road is spectacular in summer, and to think how well those trees are still doing after all the surfacing and hard paved areas.
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9th September 2007, 09:08 PM
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| PDF King & Arborist Extrodinaire Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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| Re: Adelaide city of trees Con't Part of Adelaide Uni campus in the center of town...note just how close these trees are to the buildings yet no obvious cuts...and definately no lopping apart from some moderate compaction and root damage these trees looked great.   A beautiful Ficus covered walkway in the Bot Gdns  More lovely plane trees, I'm seriously in love with Plantanus  A great little Melia az covered pathway leading towards the Wine Centre  Just to prove I spent some time enjoying the cultural side of Adelaide...Belgian Bar off Rundle Street  More?
__________________ 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 |
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10th September 2007, 03:54 AM
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| PDF King & Arborist Extrodinaire Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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| Re: Adelaide city of trees You know Trev I've only scratched the surface of the charm and beauty I encountered in Adelaide but especially Waite Arboretum. The more I see of the major cities of Oz the more impressed I am with the foresight of the original planners...Melbourne included, I really feel each of us as Arborists owes it to our future city dwellers to do all we can (living our own lives accepted!!) to ensure that the urban forest of the future is just as attractive and beneficial to the people living there...ok enough talk more pics. Flowering pear Pyrus sp   Pretty little park in the middle of the city  The elm avenue leading up to Waite Arboretum  More flowering pears at the Arboretum..yes I like flowering pears  A very aesthetic end to lovely day of looking and talking about trees 
__________________ 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 |
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10th September 2007, 04:36 AM
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| Eric Frei Administrator - Brisbane L5 (Dip) Hort Cert III Arb + some Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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| Re: Adelaide city of trees Miss the ole blossoms on trees!
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10th September 2007, 04:12 PM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Mudgeeraba, SE Queensland
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| Re: Adelaide city of trees Ah yes!! Canopy coverage of trees over roads. I do miss that from Melbourne! Not a hell of a lot of coverage over Gold Coast roads...hell, not a lot of mature trees at all! Whats a tree hugger to do?! |
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10th September 2007, 04:17 PM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Mudgeeraba, SE Queensland
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| Re: Adelaide city of trees Great pics by the way Sean. With your love of Platanus, are you a pommie? I prefer platanus orientalis, much, MUCH bigger spread, same decorative bark, great park tree. Not too sure about their response to roadside pollution though. |
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10th September 2007, 04:40 PM
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| PDF King & Arborist Extrodinaire Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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| Re: Adelaide city of trees Ha, ha well I like to describe myself as a colonial boy, since my dad is Irish and I was born in Malaysia...but after 74' I was in UK till late 80's through high school and college so I quess to many Aussies that does make me a pomme......to the real pommes I'll always be a strange sounding foreigner! 
__________________ 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 |
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9th March 2008, 11:44 PM
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| Mature tree  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: belgium
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| Re: Adelaide city of trees Quote:
I've got stella bottles here that are meant for the aussie market, and they are far better of taste to drink then the stella beer we have on our belgian market.  I see you guys have a lot of platanus over there... Have you guys encountered masaria disease yet? It's comming our way over here from north holland, but I haven't encountered one yet. Platanus is one of my favourite trees, so I try to climb alot of them and go looking for marks of masaria. | |
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9th March 2008, 11:59 PM
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| PDF King & Arborist Extrodinaire Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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| Re: Adelaide city of trees Quercus, I am adicted to Belgian beers, esp the lambic types...some of my favourites....Chimay Reserve, chimay red/blue/brown Kriek, Cuvee des Trolls, Orval and Kwak. Don't know anything about masaria disease but will try to find more info on it, don't get to Adelaide much once a year, but there are Plantanus in the Gold Coast so I'll check up on the disease and if it is present here.
__________________ 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 |
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