Posts Tagged ‘Hill’s figs’
Arthur Park. Vandals. 18.5.2012
May 18, 2012
Going, going, gone 17.5.2012
May 17, 2012Arthur Park, where Council used what seemed to me to be a far-fetched trees-poisoned-with-RoundUp-story, was half destroyed this week. (more…)
Take that, treehuggers 8.5.2012
May 7, 2012Ravenshaw Figs: Congrats to NCC 4.1.2012
January 4, 2012
Here’s proof that NCC has the will to look after some fig trees. (more…)
Managing trees in Newcastle – and see you at Council next Tuesday 29.9.2011
September 30, 2011
Big winds today felled a Norfolk Island pine in Tudor Street in Hamilton – and chainsaws felled a lovely Port Jackson fig in Cooks Hill. (more…)
Slide show 2.9.2011
September 2, 2011
Slide shows had an undeserved bad reputation in the days before digital cameras. Now that they’re DIY – and do it alone – there’s no excuse for whining about them: just don’t look.
Here’s a slide show of the protest in Civic Park on Monday morning just gone - where people gathered to form the community picket line in advance of the trees being taken out. (more…)
Fig tree survives beige 23.5.2011
May 24, 2011
I paid a visit to the remaining mature (some arborists would say ‘ageing’) Hill’s fig in Steel Street on Sunday to see how the guttering work treated it. (more…)
A Little Whine for Mother’s Day 8.5.2011
May 8, 2011
Here are some of the things I learned this week. (more…)
Developers’ care for $100 000 tree 23.4.2011
April 23, 2011
I apologise that my headline is misleading – I have only the vaguest idea of the value of this Hill’s fig. I do know definitely, however, that it will need a great deal of luck to survive the beige nightmare of a development in the street around it to survive. Heaven knows, no one is taking any active steps to care of it.
Committees 7.4.2011
April 7, 2011
Things move slowly in local government, don’t they? It’s almost a month since applications for the Laman Street Working Party closed and none of the people from Save Our Figs who applied for positions have heard anything – either positive or negative. (more…)
