>>>Anybody see any potential problems with this??<<<
When I lived in the Emerald People’s Republic (otherwise known as Eugene, Oregon), many of the plum trees, English walnuts, and blackberry bushes had gone wild, poking through fences and appearing here and there in alleys and empty lots. When these trees fruited, you could literally walk down the road, pick ripe fruit, and eat it. Cool. I never collected the walnuts, but my friends did.
On the other hand, that same fruit ripened, then rotted. The plums were a slimy mess, attracting mass yellow jackets. The blackberries, once established, needed a bulldozer to remove. And the stain from the outer cover of the walnuts was nearly impossible to remove. At the end of the season, what was once Nature’s bounty had become Nature’s landfill problem.
I’m a very avid gardener, and gardening requires lots of care and effort to prevent it from being a mess. Which I’m sure the good people of Vancouver will discover once their wonderful fruits trees drop endless tons of unpicked fruit on the ground, once the vegetation becomes an unruly mess, once some of the plants become The Day of the Triffids while others die in obscurity, and once various animals and pests, especially wasps, rats, and mice, decide that they like the urban landscape as much as Canadians, then they’ll either have to hire an army of city-paid gardeners or cut down the damn things and just plant Douglas firs.
I think you pretty much nailed it.....
Before I escaped, I lived in Oregon for about 15 years, two of my sons graduated from the UofO and two still live in Portland. The “culture” along I-5 resembles bad fruit - rotten to the core.
The city here planted olive trees.
When the olives do not get picked, they create lovely slimy black spots all over the sidewalks, not to mention being a walking hazard with the pits and slime.
Unintended consequences - what liberals everywhere create.
The city here planted olive trees.
When the olives do not get picked, they create lovely slimy black spots all over the sidewalks, not to mention being a walking hazard with the pits and slime.
Unintended consequences - what liberals everywhere create.
The city here planted olive trees.
When the olives do not get picked, they create lovely slimy black spots all over the sidewalks, not to mention being a walking hazard with the pits and slime.
Unintended consequences - what liberals everywhere create.
Yep, when I lived out in California, at first I wondered why anybody wouldn't want a lemon or lime tree in their yard. And then I helped out a neighbor clean the crap up at the end of the season...