Street tree planting, Netherlands style

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.

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