There has been some criticism recently of the treatment given to these planes in Parliament Street in the centre of York.
Ebor Forestry would like to point out that these awful trees were specified amidst some pomp and ceremony in the early `90s by some now long forgotten landscape architect working from the same planning office which also specified the hated building which became known as the "splash palace" seen here in the middle distance. Instead of becoming an iconic feature of one of the few open spaces left in central York, one of the most intact and extant medieval town centres in Europe, it is in fact nothing more than a public toilet.
Apart from being inappropriate specimens for such a plaza, these trees have been nailed, stapled, plastic-banded, garroted and tied for countless ephemeral reasons dreamed up by the passing whims and fancies of even more forgotten city-centre managers and ward members trying to respond to the latest political vagary.
The bastards.
What would YOU do in the city`s poor arboricultural manager`s shoes?
Exactly.
