http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/botanic-gardens-iconic-tembusu-tree-gets-better-support
All that hoo-ha didn't save the beloved Tembusu Tree.
For a tree, which thrives in poor soil - what happened? I am certain, the babysitters working at the Botanic Gardens didn't just leave the tree to fend for herself. I read that leaf-litter was spread around her often.
I am too heartbroken to see yet another 'grand ole' lady' perish. The first time was the tree planning authorities here chopped away, for a flyover outside Bishan area. Members of the public were mostly unsupportive, but as usual, everything else MUST GIVE WAY to urban planning.
The lesson people seldom learn is : One can plan all you want, but nature runs it's own course.
This Heritage Tembusu, can never be replaced. I grew up running around her, way back then.
Botanic Gardens was THE park for all of us.
Urban Planners should already learn this lesson.
You can decide where Nature can thrive and where she cannot.
But that doesn't mean Nature will obey you, because Urban Living MUST GIVE WAY to Nature, since Nature came first.
The babysitters have done everything they thought they did - because this tree HAD to surpass us all in earth days. They chose that this tree lived so others could be chopped down.
I'm too distraught to even be coherent.
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| picture from NParks Board |
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| image from CNA |
