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Karl Montague Terrell's avatar

I support the decision to replace the Bradford Pear trees. They are beautiful — for a while — but they don’t last, and splinter and lose large limbs as they age (in less than two decades). I personally witnessed this in an Atlanta neighborhood where I used to live, Virginia Highlands, which has a similar few blocks of storefronts and sidewalks. The point came when these trees were constantly breaking apart — they were replaced by more appropriate decorative species. And now it looks great.

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Helen Miller's avatar

So happy to see them go and be replaced by natives. N.C. has a bounty for them and will replace with native species. Here's the link if anyone is interested- https://www.treebountync.com/

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