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LA has an woefully underpublicized street (and lawn) tree program, where you can get free trees if you agree to take care of them (which is mostly just periodic
by clairity 5y ago
LA has an woefully underpublicized street (and lawn) tree program, where you can get free trees if you agree to take care of them (which is mostly just periodic watering), so you wouldn't even have to buy them yourself. for street trees on the parkway (the patch of ground between the sidewalk and street), you don't technically even need the permission of the owner, although the owner might not be amenable to watering them then. apartment dwellers (like me) can get trees planted on the parkway just by agreeing to take care of them on behalf of the owner.
- harmmonica 5y agoit's true, that's exactly how we got our street tree, but a) it took an extremely long time to get the tree in the first place and b) the tree itself was rather lackluster, though now we're on year 3 of it and it's... ok. if I knew then what I know now I would've just gotten my own tree (one of the ones on the approved list) to get a nicer tree up front. as for planting the trees without the permission of the resident responsible for that parkway, like I said in that previous comment, it doesn't do much good if the folks don't take care of them. we've also learned the hard way that doing things that seem additive to the hood are not always taken that way by neighbors and can cause conflict. been on the end of that a couple of times already. that said, maybe I'll stop talking about doing this and actually try it and see what folks say.