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Christchurch got royally creamed by some earthquakes a few years ago. As part of rebuilding they were trying to green the city as much as possible, and went as far as recruiting permaculturists to come live there. Someone I knew took them up on it.
TreeTalk London – Tree Map - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34884966 - Feb 2023 (32 comments)
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Those roads in the linked Streetview are from 2013, btw. As they were a) low traffic and b) prone to liquefaction in aftershocks, they were low priority for repairs. They're a lot better today.
I switched to the latest and they didn’t seem very good. Maybe I’m too critical.
I can’t say that the rest of the city is pristine but it is a good bit better.
I recently used Cairns city council's exhaustive tree map to match and identify a beautiful weed tree that had popped up in my front yard (to a tree in a nearby park). Turns out it's actually an edible fruit tree (a damson plum) so we've kept it. Tho it's already quite big and will start taking light from the mango tree soon enough, so decision is akin to an adoption! By weed tree, I mean planted by a bird. https://w…
You can graft onto that tree to get other varieties. It surprisingly simple and very satisfying. If you’re really clever, you may be able to make it grow as a dwarf, or columnar tree. I haven’t done those things and they might require something being done to the roots.
And yet to try grafting but do have a few citrus around that would be prime candidates!
I’m pretty familiar with the area- one of the more unique parts of the city is the “red zone”, a recovered area which became uninsurable due to the changes in the assessment of land risks post quake. It’s a weird place as the roads are still there and the trees are still along the edges of the former gardens but all the houses are gone and the sites reverted to grass. Many of the fruit trees on this map are from thos…
I’m pretty familiar with the area- one of the more unique parts of the city is the “red zone”, a recovered area which became uninsurable due to the changes in the assessment of land risks post quake. It’s a weird place as the roads are still there and the trees are still along the edges of the former gardens but all the houses are gone and the sites reverted to grass. Many of the fruit trees on this map are from thos…
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Thanks for this. It’s really odd seeing the empty sections. I’m alarmed at the state of the roads - what is going on? I thought ours were bad up in Auckland but those ones I just looked at in Christchurch are are terrible.
The roads in the red zone are no longer maintained. It's surprising how quickly road condition deteriorates.
I’m pretty familiar with the area- one of the more unique parts of the city is the “red zone”, a recovered area which became uninsurable due to the changes in the assessment of land risks post quake. It’s a weird place as the roads are still there and the trees are still along the edges of the former gardens but all the houses are gone and the sites reverted to grass. Many of the fruit trees on this map are from thos…
Check out the area west of LAX or the one south of SJC