This stump is all that is left of a mature fig Council chopped down about a year ago.
Posts Tagged ‘street trees’
Happy coincidence
March 4, 2013Eff Cordingley finally responded: killed figs 15.1.2013
January 15, 2013
I wrote to Newcastle Council in December 2012 to find out what they were doing about a row of fig trees which appeared to have been killed by incompetence.
I finally received a letter today in reply: over two months. Not bad. (more…)
Take that, treehuggers 8.5.2012
May 7, 2012Islington – Ausgrid and NCC vandalism 2.5.2012
May 2, 2012The poor tree in the photos below has been assaulted pruned by Ausgrid so much that it developed a crack in its base. That provided the excuse for Newcastle City Council to say it had to be felled. (more…)
Ausgrid Vandals 26.4.2012
April 26, 2012Ausgrid’s teams have destroyed a hundred streetscapes in Newcastle in recent weeks. (more…)
Silky Oak Home 20.4.2012
April 20, 2012This somewhat scrappy looking silky oak may not make all of us happy, but birds love it. (more…)
Is this the future? 31.12.2011
December 31, 2011
Tyrrell Street was the Newcastle street that allowed Newcastle people to see the future for Laman Street if the fig trees there are managed by Newcastle City Council the way it sees fit.
Lillypilly update 16.4.2011
April 16, 2011
This is a picture of the lillypilly I wrote about in March – the one Council and residents wanted to retain but that Council gave up on once the tree was examined by arborist Dennis Marsden. (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…)
Poor New Lambton Lillypilly 10.3.2011
March 10, 2011
The community lost this poor tree in Council last night. (more…)
