Quote Originally Posted by gthomas View Post
We also need to keep a descent streetwall, midtown is catching on to that method. Is it illegal/legal to plant evergreens along main streets?

No Evergreens...The trees in Paris are mostly the Horse-Chestnut. The french are meticulous with having pollarded trees throughout the city. One idea I have for Detroit as a possible tourist place would be a sculptured garden. Might as well turn a lot of empty land into the world's largest sculptured garden rivaling the Versailles or the Schloss Schönbrunn in Austria.

Here are the ways trees look in Paris:
http://www.thesanguineroot.com/?


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http://www.schoenbrunn.at/en.html