[CANUFNET] Downtown trees
BGeerts at brantford.ca
BGeerts at brantford.ca
Thu Jan 14 12:18:54 EST 2010
Downtown tree survival is a big challenge for everybody. My usual
response when somebody asks be about planting native trees in downtown
areas is: "There are no native trees for those ecosystems". I suppose the
only one you could make an argument for is Ginkgo, as it has been
cultivated in urban areas in Asia for a few thousand years. Is a few
thousand years enough time to make it native?
That being said, we've had reasonable success with the following species:
Sophora japonica & Ginkgo. We've tried lots of others ( but I wouldn't
call them successes).
Tree of Heaven seems to do fine, though we don't plant it. If you didn't
mind the maintenance to keep it under control, you could make a coarse
pleached display.
Some of the other invasive trees would likely do well too, as long as you
can control the spread/less desirable attributes. Maintaining a pleached
Tree of Heaven would be less cost & less work than replacing dead native
trees every year.
________________________
Brian Geerts
ISA Certified Arborist
Urban Forestry Technician
City of Brantford
Parks & Recreation Department
1 Sherwood Drive
Brantford, ON N3T 1N3
519.756.1500 x5511
Fax 519.756.4893
bgeerts at brantford.ca
canufnet-request at list.web.net
Sent by: canufnet-bounces at list.web.net
01/14/2010 12:00 PM
Please respond to
canufnet at list.web.net
To
canufnet at list.web.net
cc
Subject
CANUFNET Digest, Vol 61, Issue 2
Send CANUFNET mailing list submissions to
canufnet at list.web.net
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/canufnet
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
canufnet-request at list.web.net
You can reach the person managing the list at
canufnet-owner at list.web.net
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of CANUFNET digest..."
Today's Topics:
1. Re: Trees in Downtown business areas (Dean Sheppard)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:18:35 -0500
From: "Dean Sheppard" <rdsheppard at rogers.com>
Subject: Re: [CANUFNET] Trees in Downtown business areas
To: <canufnet at list.web.net>
Message-ID: <EDBE5A33D15E47DC896E8714C075F2CC at deansdesktop>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=original
Hi All,
I represent a local tree planting charity in London which is trying to
install trees in Downtown London. Species selection (and acceptance by
the
City) is proving difficult due to concerns with tolerance of downtown
conditions. I would find it extremely helpful to hear what species are
being
used (successfully or otherwise) in other downtown areas. Native species
would be of highest interest.
Thanks,
Dean Sheppard
ReForest London
London, ON
rdsheppard at rogers.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <canufnet-request at list.web.net>
To: <canufnet at list.web.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:00 PM
Subject: [Bulk] CANUFNET Digest, Vol 61, Issue 1
> Send CANUFNET mailing list submissions to
> canufnet at list.web.net
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/canufnet
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> canufnet-request at list.web.net
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
> canufnet-owner at list.web.net
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of CANUFNET digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Trees in Downtown business areas (Jeannette Wheeler)
> 2. Re: Trees in Downtown business areas (Doug Costigan)
> 3. Re: Trees in Downtown business areas (Ian Wilson)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:29:15 -0700
> From: Jeannette Wheeler <Jeannette.Wheeler at edmonton.ca>
> Subject: [CANUFNET] Trees in Downtown business areas
> To: "'canufnet at list.web.net'" <canufnet at list.web.net>
> Message-ID:
> <6B7172B5999E534494045D38485A5A1B16D286D514 at EXPO701.COE.ADS>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Happy New Year Everyone,
>
> Like many cities, the trees in the downtown area is important
> environmentally, ecologically, economically and for social and health
> concerns. Many trees planted in the downtown area have a very reduced
life
> span due to street and sidewalk salt application, compaction vandalism
> ............... What are other Canadian cities doing to maximize/improve
> the growing conditions of trees in their downtown areas.
>
> Jenny Wheeler, P. Biol.
>
> Principal of Forestry
> 12304-107 Street
> Edmonton, Alberta
> T5G 2S7
>
> Phone: 780 442 0224
> Fax: 780 496 4978
> Cell: 780 910 7578
>
> Parks Healthy, by Nature
>
>
> EcoVision Edmonton is our vision for an environmentally sustainable
city.
> Go Green! It's Our Nature
> visit: www.edmonton.ca/environmental/programs/ecovision.aspx
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL:
> <
http://list.web.net/archives/canufnet/attachments/20100111/32ece924/attachment-0001.htm
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:32:54 -0700
> From: Doug Costigan <Doug.Costigan at edmonton.ca>
> Subject: Re: [CANUFNET] Trees in Downtown business areas
> To: "'canufnet at list.web.net'" <canufnet at list.web.net>
> Message-ID:
> <6B7172B5999E534494045D38485A5A1B16D1F42E78 at EXPO701.COE.ADS>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Thanks jenny for following on this for us
>
> ________________________________
> From: canufnet-bounces at list.web.net <canufnet-bounces at list.web.net>
> To: 'canufnet at list.web.net' <canufnet at list.web.net>
> Sent: Mon Jan 11 10:29:15 2010
> Subject: [CANUFNET] Trees in Downtown business areas
>
> Happy New Year Everyone,
>
> Like many cities, the trees in the downtown area is important
> environmentally, ecologically, economically and for social and health
> concerns. Many trees planted in the downtown area have a very reduced
life
> span due to street and sidewalk salt application, compaction vandalism
> ????? What are other Canadian cities doing to maximize/improve the
growing
> conditions of trees in their downtown areas.
>
> Jenny Wheeler, P. Biol.
>
> Principal of Forestry
> 12304-107 Street
> Edmonton, Alberta
> T5G 2S7
>
> Phone: 780 442 0224
> Fax: 780 496 4978
> Cell: 780 910 7578
>
> Parks Healthy, by Nature
>
>
>
> EcoVision Edmonton is our vision for an environmentally sustainable
city.
> Go Green! It's Our Nature
> visit: www.edmonton.ca/environmental/programs/ecovision.aspx
>
> EcoVision Edmonton is our vision for an environmentally sustainable
city.
> Go Green! It's Our Nature
> visit: www.edmonton.ca/environmental/programs/ecovision.aspx
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL:
> <
http://list.web.net/archives/canufnet/attachments/20100111/ff3e31ae/attachment-0001.htm
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:59:22 -0800
> From: "Ian Wilson" <IWilson at kelowna.ca>
> Subject: Re: [CANUFNET] Trees in Downtown business areas
> To: "Canadian Urban Forest Network" <canufnet at list.web.net>
> Message-ID:
>
<63C8F69A3250564AAAEE162EF144217F1E471E93 at kelexchange.city.kelowna.bc.ca>
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> The most important aspects seem to be (1) species selection, (2) soil
> and to a lesser extent (3) water. Having a good quality soil with
> adequate volume is particularly important. We have used the new Silva
> Cell product as well as structural soils, and it seems to be working
> well so far. It's expensive but we are looking at it as a long term
> investment.
>
>
>
> Ian Wilson
>
> City of Kelowna
>
>
>
> From: canufnet-bounces at list.web.net
> [mailto:canufnet-bounces at list.web.net] On Behalf Of Jeannette Wheeler
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 9:29 AM
> To: 'canufnet at list.web.net'
> Subject: [CANUFNET] Trees in Downtown business areas
>
>
>
> Happy New Year Everyone,
>
>
>
> Like many cities, the trees in the downtown area is important
> environmentally, ecologically, economically and for social and health
> concerns. Many trees planted in the downtown area have a very reduced
> life span due to street and sidewalk salt application, compaction
> vandalism ............... What are other Canadian cities doing to
> maximize/improve the growing conditions of trees in their downtown
> areas.
>
>
>
> Jenny Wheeler, P. Biol.
>
>
>
> Principal of Forestry
>
> 12304-107 Street
>
> Edmonton, Alberta
>
> T5G 2S7
>
>
>
> Phone: 780 442 0224
>
> Fax: 780 496 4978
>
> Cell: 780 910 7578
>
>
>
> Parks Healthy, by Nature
>
>
>
>
>
> EcoVision Edmonton is our vision for an environmentally sustainable
> city. Go Green! It's Our Nature
> visit: www.edmonton.ca/environmental/programs/ecovision.aspx
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL:
> <
http://list.web.net/archives/canufnet/attachments/20100111/6c12cf2f/attachment-0001.htm
>
>
> End of CANUFNET Digest, Vol 61, Issue 1
> ***************************************
End of CANUFNET Digest, Vol 61, Issue 2
***************************************
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://list.web.net/pipermail/canufnet/attachments/20100114/9bb96237/attachment.htm>
More information about the CANUFNET
mailing list