This old article conforms with the Horridculture meme for Wednesday. I can not post a link here, so this is the previous article: https://tonytomeo.com/2018/01/20/six-on-saturday-cat-walk-in-the-kitty-city/
Perhaps I should elaborate on the ‘litter boxes’ in the ‘Six on Saturday’ post earlier this morning. As I already mentioned, they are in the same parking lot as the Leo and Leona sculptures. They were formerly inhabited by Italian cypress trees that would now be like those nearby if they had survived.
This is no joke. Someone really selected the tree that provides the least shade for hot pavement, and attracts the most birds to do what birds do on parked cars.
Because they were installed as large boxed specimens, and were watered generously enough to maintain swampy conditions in the surrounding soil, most of the cypresses could not disperse their roots fast enough, and consequently got blown over onto parked cars in their first or second winter. The survivors took many years to get established, and were bound to big and unsightly lodgepole stakes for years.
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Hmmm… I wouldn’t think those trees would be choice for parking lots. The boxes of grass just looks weird and likely are somewhat difficult to maintain. Not to mention dangerous for people getting in and out of cars or walking through the parking lot. I just don’t get the whole idea…
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Yes, the whole thing is weird, and would have been weird even if each litterbox contained an Italian cypress as might have been intended.
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I just don’t think they are a good idea in the parking lot like that at all. Better to do something similar at the ends of the rows than throughout the parking lot.
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Exactly!
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