It is time to interrogate the ideaogy that has evolved over the past 50 or so yerars in Australia that the planting of 'NATIVES' in our gardens and urban lanfscapes is an ideal that shoud/must be honoured. It's concept that is not entirely out of place albeit that 'Australinan Natives' did not evolve in a Eurocentic cum 'settler' urban CULTURALlandscape and many species just do no fit the circumstance – especially so for a great many eucalypts.
The belief that eucalypts in particular should be allowed FULLexpressions to enable maximum canopy cover just does not pass the PUBtest if their canopy is not managed and it turns out that management required is generally expensive and when these trees are left to achieve FULLexpressions they break in high winds and destroy expensive infrasture – housing, fences. etc..
It is not the case that these trees cannot beb 'managed' but bit it is an ongoing and expensive process and somewhat counterproductive IF canopy cover is the purpose for planting these trees.
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