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Douglas Todd: Tough watering restrictions threaten Metro Vancouver’s trees

With the average Metro Vancouver tree living less than eight years, horticulturalists urge politicians to get out the message that trees need deep watering, even during restrictions.

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The average Metro Vancouver tree has a lifespan of less than eight years. That makes it even more important to preserve as many trees as possible, particularly those that are older.

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The startling statistic, from Brian Minter, a prominent B.C. horticulturalist, serves as a deadly warning: Metro Vancouver’s unusually early and severe watering restrictions are a threat to the region’s trees.

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Given that so many young trees in Metro Vancouver do not reach their tween years — mostly for lack of watering — Minter has come to think of the metropolis’s relatively few older trees as rare and precious “gold.”

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