An interesting turn of events in a new housing development near us. A whole mature olive orchard was removed before the land was plowed and compacted. I didn’t see this and assumed the trees were cut and chipped. Nope, just as the home-building was nearing completion, here came big flatbed trucks with all those same trees in nursery boxes. The developer had paid a nursery to box them up and take care of them until they could plant them again. They were re-installed artfully around the perimeter of the location and near the entrance. You would think they had been there all the time. I have to say, they look great and it seems they will survive the transplant, which process took several years. No, the name of the subdivision does not have OLIVE in it, but I thought it should. The skeptic in me wondered if they got some gubmint grant for being green and saving trees.
An interesting turn of events in a new housing development near us. A whole mature olive orchard was removed before the land was plowed and compacted. I didn’t see this and assumed the trees were cut and chipped. Nope, just as the home-building was nearing completion, here came big flatbed trucks with all those same trees in nursery boxes. The developer had paid a nursery to box them up and take care of them until they could plant them again. They were re-installed artfully around the perimeter of the location and near the entrance. You would think they had been there all the time. I have to say, they look great and it seems they will survive the transplant, which process took several years. No, the name of the subdivision does not have OLIVE in it, but I thought it should. The skeptic in me wondered if they got some gubmint grant for being green and saving trees.