On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:52:44AM -0500, Al Krigman wrote: > > In a message dated 3/12/03 9:20:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Great offer but where do we put 10 trees in our little backyards? > Granted, they are only 12 inches now but won't they grow? > Suggestions are > welcome. > > Well, they're supposed to be "compact" trees appropriate for urban > settings. But you do raise a very good point. > An idea (I should have thought of but didn't until you mentioned this) > would be for one or another of UC's Community Associations to > encourage its members to join in numbers, then plant all the trees in > appropriate public spaces where we know the City ought to but won't do > it. An example might be for the Spruce Hill Community Association to > facilitate putting a row of them along the ugly (as it was pointed out > at their Board meeting last night) high chain-link fence in front of > the Alexander School. Friends of Clark Park might be another logical > candidate for something of this type, especially because they could > arrange for an area to be staked off with some kind of inexpensive > border fencing to protect the little saplings from being trodden upon.
They're so small that they really need to be nurseried in pots for a few years unless it's a very private space like your yard. At their current size, a careless step is the end of them. It'll take them a few years to get big enough to survive in a street or trafficked environment. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
