Street tree planting, Netherlands style
![Jim Labbe, Audubon Society of Portland, next to a street tree in Nijmegen, Netherlands. (jim-labbe.travellerspoint.com)](https://photos.travellerspoint.com/227935/StreetTrees.jpg)
An urban conservationist for the Audubon Society of Portland circulated a tree-related post from his travel blog that highlights a street tree planting in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Here is an excerpt from Jim Labbe’s post:
In October, when I arrived at my first rental place along Hatertseweg, city workers were tearing up the street a few blocks away. No big surprise really. The Dutch are always repairing, reconstructing, and most the time improving their public right-of-ways.
But this particular reconstruction job got my attention. The workers had constructed massive underground planter boxes between the street and the cycle path.
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Labbe’s travel blog has postings from all across Europe, with topics ranging from green rooftops in Switzerland to dancing the tango at a gas station.
–Toshio Suzuki