Posts Tagged ‘Hill’s figs’
January 11, 2013
School 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…)
Tags:Double Bay, Hill's figs, QRAP, QTRA, Roads Act
Posted in street trees | 6 Comments »
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…)
Tags:chainsaws, Council meeting, delegated authority, Hannell St, Hill's figs, independent assessment, Laman St, NCC, Norfolk Island pines, Parry St, Ravenshaw St, TAMS, tree asset management system, tree removal notification, trenching, Tudor St, vandalism, wind
Posted in Newcastle, street trees | 2 Comments »
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…)
Tags:Civic Park, Hill's figs, laman street, NCC, photos, protest, rally, rooster, transparency
Posted in Laman Street, Newcastle | Leave a Comment »