Plant 1 million trees Miami (photos, winter, effect)

[tallrick]

Originally Posted by doom1001

I like Florida pine trees,I don't think I'm old enough to remember but was there ever a time Miami had a significant amount of these trees or are they just more common in Central and North Florida?Palm trees have also just gotten as boring as the Spanish/Mediterranean homes they sit in front of.You're starting to see some more modern home designs sneaking into neighborhoods along with other styles like Southern Cottages that hopefully start changing the overall design of construction in South Florida because I'm over the Mediterranean style with palm trees that give off very little shade.

The pines were common in all the higher areas of the county. Unfortunately people coming here in the 1800's saw them as lumber and people coming to farm saw them as garbage. Most were cut down by the 1950's except in older, more upscale areas where they were left as shade trees. The problem is that those native pines need fungi to survive and development strips the ground of the mulch and debris the fungi thrive in, replacing it with high Ph lawns that eventually kill the pines. Where I live now the soil is sandy and acid so the pines survive easily. In coral rock the pines cannot survive development.

[tallrick]

Originally Posted by perry335654

Maybe they should put all of the million trees in Hialeah, they sure need them even there have been quite a few planted already but still looks sparse.

Hialeah has done a decent job landscaping the streets, but the lower class Cubans hate trees in their yards.

[OptimusPrime69]

Originally Posted by tallrick

Hialeah has done a decent job landscaping the streets, but the lower class Cubans hate trees in their yards.

they do?

how do u know?

[tallrick]

Originally Posted by OptimusPrime69

they do?

how do u know?

I grew up in Miami in the 70's and 80's. When the Cubans got off the rafts, it was only a few years before the trees were cut down. The Cuban areas before that like 8 street also full of low end Cubans, were already stripped. The higher class Cubans do like trees a bit more.

[perry335654]

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=miami...135.12,,0,9.56


I like these type of trees planted in Hialeah

[popcorn247]

Originally Posted by perry335654

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=miami...135.12,,0,9.56


I like these type of trees planted in Hialeah

Those are our native oaks, live oak, Quercus virginiana. A very nice tree imho.

[tallrick]

Originally Posted by perry335654

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=miami...135.12,,0,9.56


I like these type of trees planted in Hialeah

Funny, you can see the last non Hispanic putting cones in the driveway to stop it from being blocked by the cars from illegal efficiencies. Note the neighboring homes with Cuban style landscaping with half dead lawns and a few palm trees.

[OptimusPrime69]

I like these.

[perry335654]

Originally Posted by OptimusPrime69

I like these.

Yea I agree with you.

[perry335654]

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