Posted on 11/30/2008 10:57:46 PM PST by CE2949BB
SAN FRANCISCO—Officials here want residents to celebrate Christmas this year without killing another tree.
The San Francisco Department of the Environment and Friends of the Urban Forest say residents can pay $90 for a potted tree in their home that will be picked up and planted on a city street after the holidays.
The trees offered—southern magnolia, small leaf tristania, strawberry and New Zealand Christmas trees—may not look traditional, but they all thrive in the area's climate.
http://www.sfenvironment.org/greenchristmas
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
You pay 90 bucks for an a$$ ugly tree and then they take it from you, no money back. What a crock.
Think of all the energy expended to supply those living trees!
Anybody who falls for this scam is a fricking moron. Since it's San Francisco, I expect many sales.
A strawberry plant for Christmas?
I think it might be worth the $90 if they deliver and pick up the tree via hippie-powered rickshaw.
Who wouldn't want one of these... trees... instead of a traditional Christmas tree? ;)
New Zealand Christmas Tree
Small Leaf Tristania
Southern Magnolia
Strawberry Tree
Credit: SFEnvironment.
Look at that Christmas tree! It's so healthy looking! How could any good citizen of San Francisco want that thing?!
they’d sell even more trees if the words “Barack Obama” were etched into the trunk.
Those “Christmas trees” remind me of the tree on the old Charlie Brown Christmas special.
This year I am getting FOUR Christmas Trees because I can fit three on my balcony (maybe four if I squeeze them tight enough).
(maybe five if I stagger two in front and three behind)
Save a tree...put a farmer out of business. And don’t even get so much as a tax deduction.
And then the city Parks or Street Department will kill it anyway.
Yep... they seem to forget that trees are a renewable resource.
too bad few of them are nonnative to the SF area and should not be planted but to environmental contamination
Only diamonds and herpes are forever.
lol. Well that is true.
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