Meetings with Unremarkable Trees

I love the city where I live. It is filled with green open spaces, parks and trees. Beautiful, elegant, majestic trees.

In another town not too far away, I visited the newly-developed harbour, and a rather frightening thought struck me. As I wandered around the desolate, highly modern and designed landscape, I noticed that all the trees (such as they were) were growing directly out of concrete, and that they were all the same.  Every single tree, in it’s straight row, lined up neatly with the strangely soulless buildings, looked exactly the same. At this moment I formulated my loathing of architectural trees.

Returning back to my home city, I started to see them everywhere. My enjoyment of city trees had been ruined.

The following is my pictorial essay about city trees. All these photos were taken on one walk from a residential area to the newer harbourside development. Some of them show what I think are ‘good’ tree use, and some startlingly bad. I’ll leave it to you to make up your own mind which you like or dislike.

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