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gaytobymeres · 11 months

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i could not work in an arboretum/as an arboriculturist because its like 'here are lots of really old and culturally/conservationally valuable trees, please keep them alive also here are five hundered million bajillion pests which can kill all of these trees + theres no cure for most of them + for some diseases you have to remove all the trees in one particular genus. sorry.'

#tree diseases make me so ill like seeing all these mature ash trees in my city just slowly dying from ash dieback and wondering what the #city skyline will look like in 5 or 10 years time #or when you see photos comparing the english countryside from before dutch elm disease versus after #and its just decimated by it #and then visitng a garden recently and they have to cut down all Larix spp to control a specific disease #and theres like. 200 of them (its a huge site)#and its just depressing as fuck #and then the government seems to be really fuckin lax about checking for pests when plants are coming into the country #oh my god also like allllll the box hedging at historic gardens being destroyed by pests and diseases #and like with box hedging its grown in such a way that makes it really susceptible to disease so its kind of inevitable ig but its still #really sad imo #and with climate change its only going to get worse :(

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