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Rant: A city park in Springfield had a 'historic tree' sign on a Bradford pear
I was walking through Forest Park last week and saw a plaque calling a Bradford pear a 'heritage specimen' planted in 1995. I had to laugh, knowing how brittle and invasive those trees are. Has anyone else seen a tree get way more credit than it deserves?
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anderson.david9d ago
Wait, they called a tree from 1995 "historic"? That's barely thirty years old. That's not history, that's just bad landscaping.
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terry_jones12d ago
My local hardware store stopped selling those trees last year.
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caleb26212d ago
Did you check if any local nurseries still carry them? Sometimes the big box stores drop plants that don't sell fast enough, but smaller garden centers keep them around. I had to hunt for a specific shrub last spring and found it at a family-run place a few towns over. It's worth calling a few places before you give up. They might even be able to order one for you if they don't have it in stock.
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