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Fruity Street Trees?

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COMMENT 122963P	2010-11-20 10:11 AM
Works w/oranges in Sevilla, Spain...
COMMENT 122978P	2010-11-20 10:58 AM
Anyone who has a fruit tree in their yard knows how messy they can get. What a mess it would be on a public sidewalk.
COMMENT 122987	2010-11-20 11:34 AM
It would be nice if the city could harvest the olives on Olive St.
COMMENT 123005	2010-11-20 12:46 PM
On Phelps rd in Goleta, there are about 25 orange, lemon and grapefruit trees next to the street sidewalk. My guess is that they are up for grabs. I know some students grab some ripe ones for a snack on the bike ride home. I dont think the city maintains them, possibly the crew that works for Storke Ranch. Does anyone know why they are there?
COMMENT 123026	2010-11-20 03:17 PM
What you see pictured at 101 and Fairview was a Goleta Beautiful project, done in conjunction with Caltrans. It was on the books as a project for eighteen years before it was ever given the "go ahead" It was a project called "The Gateway to Goleta" and Dr Jerry Groff was chair of this committee, and persistently worked to have it completed. Many issues caused the delays, namely the water moratorium and changes in the Caltrans administration changes over the years. Marie Harden worked hard during her time in Goleta Beautiful to get this project done and was given the honor to plant a rose tree also at the site. (Which, in her estimation was foolish, because roses do need more care and water than Caltrans would give) It looks very nice.
COMMENT 123075P	2010-11-21 08:14 AM
One of the most accessible of abandoned trees is the grafted English walnut. Remants of plantings from decades ago, they bear faithfully every year without care. Love to glean those great nuts. The city of San Jose, once a huge fruit growing area, makes the same nod to the area's orchardist history with fruit tree 'orchard' plantings along the 85 Freeway which cuts across the old Blossom Hill district in the southern part of the Santa Clara Valley. It really makes you do a double take. As kids we rode our bikes down country roads through the orchards, plum apricot, cherry, before the houses started to sprout up eveywhere. We were not above stealing a bit of fruit now and then, when nobody was around.
BECKY	2010-11-21 06:41 PM
I do nothing to my aged walnut tree, and it produces well every year. I did very little trimming of my lemon tree, and ditto. Since Goleta's heritage is walnuts and lemons (and pampas grass, but that ain't edible), I still think we should have planted walnuts or lemons in Fairview Onramp area. That said, I am delighted to see Oaks returning to Cathedral Oaks. It'll be at least 50 years before they're "Cathedral" like (maybe 100 years?), but that's the nature of trees.
COMMENT 123193	2010-11-21 07:29 PM
Oaks returning to Cathedral Oaks......I planted an acorn from a Calif Live Oak 40 years ago in Goleta It is now a huge tree, about 40' tall and the trunk is about 30''

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