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DrZulufunk
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Joey Cuppa
yup i've seen the gurriella gardening site its cool
Joey Cuppa
yup i've seen the gurriella gardening site its cool
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bizorky
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I love the whole green roof thing. I also encourage it as a means to hiding all those ugly mechanical shacks up top.
I love the whole green roof thing. I also encourage it as a means to hiding all those ugly mechanical shacks up top.
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AlvinofDiaspar
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re: Green Roofs:
Here is some additional info from the City of Toronto
www.toronto.ca/greenroofs/index.htm
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re: Green Roofs:
Here is some additional info from the City of Toronto
www.toronto.ca/greenroofs/index.htm
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tudararms
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Why can't the city line the streets and boulevards with...trees! Now there's a novel idea. April in Paris, my foot! How about May in T.O.!!!!!
Why can't the city line the streets and boulevards with...trees! Now there's a novel idea. April in Paris, my foot! How about May in T.O.!!!!!
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building babel
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That reminds me - I gotta tidy the garden.
I bought a potted plant at a garage sale ages ago when I lived in the apartment on Cambridge. Much later I bought a house on the same street, so it moved back to the old neighbourhood.
It was a weedy thing with long spiky leaves that hung down and sometimes frayed at the ends and turned brown. Not much of a looker. My partner and I called it Audrey, after the plant in 'Little Shop of Horrors'. We also had a huge Boston fern, Charley, that hung from the apartment ceiling, getting lots of southern light. Both plants moved to the house.
Audrey sat in a pot at the foot of the stairs. Charley sat in a slim metal plant stand in front of the window, leaves spilling out all around.
But neither seemed happy in their new home. Audrey almost stopped growing. Charley's leaves turned pale and then brown and he began to shrink.
In '95 we had a dining room table and chairs made. Ambrose liked to entertain, so it made sense. There was no longer any room for Charley in his elegant stand by the window. And Audrey was, frankly, becoming an embarrasment.
One day I took Charley out of his stand. I lifted him gently out of the plastic pot. I was surprised to see he was all roots and no soil. Only the water and plant food had been keeping him going. I cut off all his leaves and threw them in the back garden, I yanked his root ball out of the pot and did the same with it. Bye-bye Charley.
I cut Audrey's slim stalk in bits, chopped up her leaves and threw the body parts into the back garden, too. No more Audrey.
Ambrose was in mourning for weeks.
One day I came home and found he'd bought a huge aquarium and had put it in the serving area between the kitchen and the living room. It was full of exotic fish. The gurgling and bubbling of the air thing was incessantly annoying. But I knew I had to put up with it.
That reminds me - I gotta tidy the garden.
I bought a potted plant at a garage sale ages ago when I lived in the apartment on Cambridge. Much later I bought a house on the same street, so it moved back to the old neighbourhood.
It was a weedy thing with long spiky leaves that hung down and sometimes frayed at the ends and turned brown. Not much of a looker. My partner and I called it Audrey, after the plant in 'Little Shop of Horrors'. We also had a huge Boston fern, Charley, that hung from the apartment ceiling, getting lots of southern light. Both plants moved to the house.
Audrey sat in a pot at the foot of the stairs. Charley sat in a slim metal plant stand in front of the window, leaves spilling out all around.
But neither seemed happy in their new home. Audrey almost stopped growing. Charley's leaves turned pale and then brown and he began to shrink.
In '95 we had a dining room table and chairs made. Ambrose liked to entertain, so it made sense. There was no longer any room for Charley in his elegant stand by the window. And Audrey was, frankly, becoming an embarrasment.
One day I took Charley out of his stand. I lifted him gently out of the plastic pot. I was surprised to see he was all roots and no soil. Only the water and plant food had been keeping him going. I cut off all his leaves and threw them in the back garden, I yanked his root ball out of the pot and did the same with it. Bye-bye Charley.
I cut Audrey's slim stalk in bits, chopped up her leaves and threw the body parts into the back garden, too. No more Audrey.
Ambrose was in mourning for weeks.
One day I came home and found he'd bought a huge aquarium and had put it in the serving area between the kitchen and the living room. It was full of exotic fish. The gurgling and bubbling of the air thing was incessantly annoying. But I knew I had to put up with it.
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AlvinofDiaspar
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Several problems. 1 - road salt - the kill zone is about a metre or so from the roadway, and that would mean planting trees deep into the sidewalk, which aren't wide enough in most places; 2 - watering - trees need a depenable supply of water to grow, and that means finding a way to water the hundred of thousands of street trees.
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Several problems. 1 - road salt - the kill zone is about a metre or so from the roadway, and that would mean planting trees deep into the sidewalk, which aren't wide enough in most places; 2 - watering - trees need a depenable supply of water to grow, and that means finding a way to water the hundred of thousands of street trees.
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Brighter Hell
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is salt really that much of an issue? lots of cities in ontario have street trees with no problems. and it's not like salt is used on a daily basis. i don't know about toronto but in peterborough the roads are rarely salted. cobourg, OTOH, is salt-happy and its street trees do okay.
is salt really that much of an issue? lots of cities in ontario have street trees with no problems. and it's not like salt is used on a daily basis. i don't know about toronto but in peterborough the roads are rarely salted. cobourg, OTOH, is salt-happy and its street trees do okay.
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tudararms
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We could plant mangroves instead.
We could plant mangroves instead.
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Ontarian1976
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I always used to think the downtown stretch of Yonge was so ugly, but could never put my finger on why. Then I realized, it's because there are no trees. Other cities plant trees along their most famous street, but for some reason we don't.
I always used to think the downtown stretch of Yonge was so ugly, but could never put my finger on why. Then I realized, it's because there are no trees. Other cities plant trees along their most famous street, but for some reason we don't.
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cdl42
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"Other cities plant trees along their most famous street, but for some reason we don't."
I love these absurd generalisations. "But Mom! All the other kids have one!"
"Other cities plant trees along their most famous street, but for some reason we don't."
I love these absurd generalisations. "But Mom! All the other kids have one!"
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DrZulufunk
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We can build robotic space arms but we cant find out a way to plant lots of trees along our streets? thats a shame i guess we'll just have to do with dead concrete every.
hey heres an idea how about we clear cut high park and build box stores with giant parking lots there, then we can create a main road with just a strip of 100 advertisement boards lining the street , pop some anti-depressents play the flute, skip, giggle, and have electronic screens showing us the stock market updates while having a robot vacume cleaner sucking our souls from our bodies finally striping away
our humanity while drinking a coke!
We can build robotic space arms but we cant find out a way to plant lots of trees along our streets? thats a shame
i guess we'll just have to do with dead concrete every.hey heres an idea how about we clear cut high park and build box stores with giant parking lots there, then we can create a main road with just a strip of 100 advertisement boards lining the street , pop some anti-depressents play the flute, skip, giggle, and have electronic screens showing us the stock market updates while having a robot vacume cleaner sucking our souls from our bodies finally striping away
our humanity while drinking a coke!
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bizorky
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You made my cactus cry.
You made my cactus cry.
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DrZulufunk
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The trees are too tall in high park they cast a shadow on peoples homes, maybe if we reduce the hieght of the trees we can keep some of them. If we plant god aweful trees in the downtown core then we might need a 5 year council meetings plus enviromental assesment , a few more years of public debate, and 5 more years to find out where we gonna get the money to plant a tree.
Nah for real tho we do need more trees, there good for the soul
The trees are too tall in high park they cast a shadow on peoples homes, maybe if we reduce the hieght of the trees we can keep some of them. If we plant god aweful trees in the downtown core then we might need a 5 year council meetings plus enviromental assesment , a few more years of public debate, and 5 more years to find out where we gonna get the money to plant a tree.
Nah for real tho we do need more trees, there good for the soul
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tudararms
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cd142: seems like a valid observation rather than an 'absurd generalization' to me.
cd142: seems like a valid observation rather than an 'absurd generalization' to me.
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bizorky
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There's a Rush song in there somewhere.
There's a Rush song in there somewhere.