But people are reluctant to spend on their gardens. The same person who'll quite happily serve you a bottle of wine that he spent 30 dollars on will baulk at spending 12 dollars 95 on a rose bush. The new suburbs. The inner suburbs have become wonderfully green over the past 15 or 20 years. It's part of the general move back to the environment movement.
People do plant what a friend calls the urban rainforest.
And in the nearly seven years that I've been in this place, I've noticed just how much greener the place is getting, the trees that were planted 10 years ago are now coming to maturity. Very often of course they are big gum trees and while they grow fast and they look magnificent and they give the area a skyline of green rather than skyline of tin roofs and chimneys, they are apt to be problematic in small backyards. They do get too big, they do drop stuff and of course eucalypts have this unfortunate habit of dropping branches, not just leaves. One could have wished that the choice would have been a little bit more careful back then. The most important thing is the scale of the tree.