Posts Tagged ‘Hill’s figs’

Alert the Philth 10.1.2013

January 11, 2013

wpid-FB_IMG_13573405378995924.jpgSchool holidays is a great time for a tree tour of Sydney, and where better to start than the eastern suburbs? I saw canopies forming cathedral arches of trees all over the place when I went down there last week.

How alarmed, though, was I to see that Australia’s richest people are apparently risking their lives on a daily basis, walking, sitting and driving under dangerous fig trees. (more…)

Baby Laman Street figs 29.9.2012

September 29, 2012

Thanks to Dane for propagating these from the felled Laman St trees and sharing the photo.

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Ravenshaw Street 24.6.2012

June 24, 2012

I’ve written to Council to ask whether a branch on this tree needs to be pruned. (more…)

Arthur Park. Vandals. 18.5.2012

May 18, 2012

Going, going, gone 17.5.2012

May 17, 2012

Arthur 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, 2012

Swan St. Before and after arborists and insurance ‘people’ had their say. Home (more…)

Ravenshaw 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…)


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