351 East 82nd Street
Thursday, June 25 at 5:59pm
People like to hangout here and smoke cigarettesI keep things shady
Take a closer look at this tree:
Ouch! When this tree was planted it was swaddled in plastic, secured with a band. But no one remembered to cut the band off. The tree grew. The band did not. Slowly it strangled the tree - preventing nutrients from flowing between the roots and the leaves.
When the band was cut off the pressure was great. I think that I heard a sigh of relief. The pit was then cleaned and fresh soil laid. A prayer was then made: "Look after a tree and your air it will clean"
The tree would likely have eventually "swallowed" that--at some point as the tree's bole grew the bark would cover the band. I have found a clothes-line and pulley actually within the branch of a tree on my property, a sort of wooden fossil. It must once have been wrapped around the branch, but there was no external evidence. Trees have amazing strength; they will chew up boulders given time.
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