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• Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah this is a big problem I see often. You have underground utilities? Tree planting becomes a huge thing. And in a lot of these walkable areas, places you’d want trees, folks tend to also prefer not to have the wires overhead with telephone poles everywhere, and so they’ve been backed into a corner.

  I did just sit through a presentation by my local environmental commission where they addressed the issue. The solution seems to be trees bred for the specific environment: deciduous provides shade but doesn’t drop a lot of leaves; can grow tall but the root ball grows in a certain way so as not to interrupt sidewalks and utilities; hearty and resilient. I can’t recall the trees, but they were described as essentially not naturally occuring.

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  • sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ginkos are very common. They’re ancient trees, and almost went extinct, but they’re tolerant of the rather extreme conditions of an urban environment and very pollution resistant

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    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I need to remember if it was ginko or something else. I’m not the greatest rememberer, so I’ll go back and check the recording. Perhaps not natural meant not native, but I recall being surprised at the description. We shall see, always interesting.

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