Bristol City Council - Not Getting It - Episode 7

Here's a tree. Big and nice, but not appreciated by someone in Canowie Road.

So it's been removed by Bristol City Council.

As you can see, this road needs all the help it can get in the tree stakes, so Bristol City Council replace it with...

A Ginkgo.

Thank you. No, really, THANK YOU Bristol City Council. Nice.

Bristol City Council - Not Getting It - Episode 2

It's Ginkgo week here at BristolStreetTrees, and we're documenting Bristol City Council's inappropriate use of replacement tree species in our city's streets. Will they ever learn?

Here's the other end of Whiteladies Road, which we covered on Sunday. It's called Park Row.

Yep, that's right. Instead of going for like-for-like replacement planting, or taking the opportunity to use a wide pavement to put in a few large canopy trees, Bristol City Council's Parks Department has chosen to book-end the planting near the Downs by planting with more inappropriate Ginkgos near the top of Park Street.

Fantastic.

No Respect: The Law of Unintended Consequences

Not satisfied with planting a Lime in Ashgrove Road, it seems Bristol City Council are intent on changing the entire character of the city.

Here we see a newly planted Ash in the majestic avenue of Limes in Kellaway Avenue.

And a newly planted Alder, also in Kellaway Avenue.

When we started campaigning for the replacement of all the trees being felled in Bristol we had no idea that we'd be having such a far-reaching and long-term impact on our Victorian Legacy.

We wonder if, in 100 years, we at Bristol Street Trees will be thanked for unwittingly changing all the avenues of single species of tree into mixed-up, random lines of virtually any and every tree species?

Hopefully our ancestors will blame the Council.

Parks Department: Secret Agenda

Bristol Street Trees is pleased to be making a difference. The council are now replanting trees. Sometimes.

But we've noticed they are subtly changing the species. This stump, for example, is an Ash.

This is in an avenue of Ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior), in Ashgrove Road.

But it's been cleverly replaced... with a small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata).

A Lime. In Ashgrove Road. In an avenue of Ash trees.

Maybe the Parks Department have a hidden agenda. We reckon they are probably closet road name changers. Limegrove Road anyone?