While conducting our urban forest inventory in Westdale this summer several of our volunteers noted that often urban trees occured not because they were planted and cared for but rather because an area was ignored long enough for a tree to become established. The most striking evidence of this were the trees (some of considerable size) that we encountered growing into and through old fences and posts. Unfortunately, the trees established in these unlikely places were more likely to be non-native, 'weedy' species, such as norway maples, manitoba maples and locusts. One of our volunteers, Kayley, snapped these photos of trees engulfing a fence along a property boundary.
Thank you Kayley and Dheerendra for sharing your photos and tree story!
