Archive for the ‘trees’ Category
Arthur Park. Vandals. 18.5.2012
May 18, 2012
Monitored Moreton Bay 11.5.2012
May 11, 2012
If this tree were in California would it be ‘monitored’ or cared for?
Imagine the opportunities squandered by Newcastle Council’s tree team in the last decade.
So much information about maintaining assets like these could have been learned. Instead the focus was on spinning the truth to get rid of them.
Trees Working for you… 4.5.2012
May 4, 2012Those comedians in the marketing division of Newcastle City Council have been hard at work again – get a load of a new sign that Sharon Healey found in Wallsend and shared with me – at the end of this post. (more…)
How long has it been since these Adamstown Park figs were mulched?
April 16, 2012I recall a year or so ago Newcastle City Council making a song and dance about mulching mature trees across town. My guess is that trees near Town Hall were mulched but not too many others. (more…)
Fig Requiem this Sunday
February 22, 2012This Sunday there will be a requiem for the figs from 4 to 6pm starting in the Baptist Tabernacle in Laman Street. (more…)
140 000 people in the Newcastle LGA in narrow escape from fig branch 3.1.2012
January 3, 2012
There’s a 15MB document that NCC call their casebook history of tree failures. I call it Fig Porn. There’s a newly discovered failed part for the ‘casebook’. (more…)
Bradfield fig 30.12.2011
December 30, 2011
Here are some pictures and a tree story shared with me by Mark Hartley, the arborist who has helped Newcastle to try to get the message out that the Laman Street trees are stable. (more…)
Wedding bells 13.4.2011
April 14, 2011
I went to a wedding in Sydney last weekend and enjoyed, in no particular order, a spectacular view of the harbour, lovely company, the optimism that always goes with these occasions, gorgeous readings – and fig trees as far as the eye could see. But not a fence in sight. (more…)
How many figs will be removed from Industrial Drive? 2.3.2011
March 2, 2011
This row of figs is on Industrial Drive in Mayfield and I hear a rumour that 6 of them are doomed so that a road can be built into a new development. (more…)
Mulch 18.1.2011
January 18, 2011
Anyone who gardens knows there are good reasons to mulch around plants. (more…)
