No Country for Old (and Young) Trees

Perhaps in view of the incidences of large trees, especially Khaya sp. (African mahogany) falling down and causing loss of lives and damage in property, they have been felled in large numbers. Well except in the case below, that tree has been "halved".

 

Photo on the left mentioned in this post: http://openplants.blogspot.sg/2016/10/pruning-of-trees-for-wind-resistance.html

The Rain tree (Samanea saman... or as the rest of the world know it by Albizia saman) that used to be in that spot used to be as large as the one in the background. I suppose defects on the tree called for it to be removed, and it was replaced by this young Rain tree. But it did not last long, possibly broke in half by strong wind travelling through that "wind tunnel". Its root ball was dug up, and the hole was left uncovered.

Photo on the left mentioned in this post: http://openplants.blogspot.sg/2017/04/arboriculture-happenings-at-bugis-area.html

 A replacement tree of the replacement tree seen on 23 Oct 2017.