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Vigilante tree loppers get fines
March 5th, 2012
It doesn’t pay to do the local council’s work and trim the street trees on your local nature strip.
A man from the Melbourne beachside suburb of Brighton has copped a $20,000 fine for trimming a street tree to improve his view of the sea …
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Woman charged with torching 3,500 year old tree
March 4th, 2012
A woman has been charged with torching a 35 century old 35 metre tall cyprus tree ..
Tags: Free trees for Brisbane
March 12th, 2010
Cupaniopsis anacardioides (Tuckeroo) one of the species council is giving away
Brisbane City Council is giving away free trees to ratepayers as part of its Free Plants Program.
That’s right … free trees !
The species include shade trees such as weeping myrtle, tuckeroo, tulipwood, scrub cherry, small leaved lilly pilly; feature trees such as bluebery ash, lemon scented tea tree, ivory curl, honeysuckle oak, golden penda, flame tree and piccabeen palm.
