The Turks fill up the arboretum

I think the RiotACT should donate an Atlas Cedar from that lot that were cut down a while ago, or at least some stock from some adjacent suburbs trees.

of course, what will be next?

giant redwood tree sapling, don’t think jon will be around to see that one grow….

peterh said :

$51 plus consultation, placement of the seedlings, commissioning a plaque, installing said plaque…. at least $500k….

Unless they get the GDE mob on to it…. With a few budget blowouts who knows what it could be worth?

; )

Does anyone else see the irony of planting a pine in a , well, burnt down pine forest…

more to burn next time. wonder what (if any) fire sprinkler systems will be put in place to protect the arboretum?

$51 plus consultation, placement of the seedlings, commissioning a plaque, installing said plaque…. at least $500k….

So basically Turkey’s gift to Canberra is worth about … 51 bucks?

*hehe*

Certainly economical anyway!

; )

Seedlings which somehow come from the tree at Lone Pine have been available from the Yarralumla Nursery for some time and from memory cost about $3.

I checked this out a while ago and actually spoke to people at the nursery about it.

There are Lone Pine seedlings at cenotaphs all over Australia.
We organised maybe a dozen for the Downs (through the War Memorial) several years ago.
Those that weren’t killed off by drought were lucky to survive council lawnmowers, but they’re not hard to come by (and didn’t involve the Turkish Embassy)

Desperate to maintain a “business as usual – building up civil projects” profile before the election, maybe?

does that mean that it isn’t, any more?

Am I the only one that senses deep irony in reproducing the Lone Pine?