Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Ailanthus


I always wondered what these trees were called.   Boston Zest reminds these are Ailanthus trees - the invasive quick-growing 'city' trees that car parkers everywhere loathe...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So what can we do about them?

John Mc said...

buy a car cover???

The city is behind in tree replacement - and if you were to replace all the trees at the same time you'd have a lot of 'holes' in your tree lined streets. They'll get replaced with a different variety as they age and are replaced.