Street tree arrangement

Thinking of ways to make installing street trees 8-16 times cheaper, so there can be 8-16 times more street trees at the same expense, because cities with 8-16 times more trees are awesome! Both residential neighborhood and public avenues benefit.

Previously a 1-2 foot diameter removal of concrete area on sidewalk occurred, comparatively mature single 3-7 year tree were planted; a decorative (()) metal doily was often placed at the base; and sometimes there was a stake.

New: Using a masonry drill bit, three to eleven 11mm holes are simply drilled in sidewalk concrete. A biodegradable funnel with a bunch of seeds at the Y-base and an angle cut tip (tent-stake like) is produced, and the person pops it into the drilled hole. Then they step on the funnel like it was a shovel, driving the funnel tip through the drilled concrete hole into the actual soil beneath the concrete.

Variations are tested like specific tree seed varieties, and funnel shapes, aesthetics, and water catchment areas are tested. Instead of the expensive metal doily ((O)), a spray painted concrete etchant (or lasers etching of the concrete surface) could say to everybody, "Tree here!". Another possibility is just like those retroreflective mega-stickers they make crosswalk (zebra crossing) stripes with, a concrete adhering sticker/doily. could be placed around the cluster of beseeded/funneled drill holes, but only if there's zero surface preparation. Surface prep is effort, and again I emphasize making more street trees alive, simultaneous to minimal human effort and expense.

The laser note: Not only could lasers fulfill the doily function by engraving the concrete with a ((O)) they could reduce the human labor of tending street trees by autoculling and pruning at each multidrilled hole location.

It's 2020 so I will be a little generous with the lasers. A dollar store photovoltaic pathlight is $1, and on alibaba a PV pathlight is just 32 cents. Modify such a pathlight to pulse a laser diode, like the way a CD player laser diode can pop a balloon, once every now and again to edit and prune the plurality of 3-11 trees per doily. On alibaba a 5 MP phone camera is 20-50 cents. What I think is a vibrating micromirror QR code scanner is about $5.60. (I'm imagining the scan element is 9 cents), add a 1-2 cent CPU; the result is a 69 cent local-area laser pruner.

For safety, rather than a balloon popping CD laser zap, a much weaker IR aim-at-stem wilting (to terminate) effect is used to cull and prune. Pruning of course sounds like a big laser zap is used, but if you sculpt the plurality of young trees once every 24 hours over years you get a new kind of (vehemently non-bonsai; actually tallness promoting) pruning. The camera, at 360 degree lens can also verify the absence of animals to reduce risk when pruning/culling. If you really want to fuss, alibaba has a 1 cent piezoelectric microphone, and you can not only avoid zapping animals he camera sees, you can prune when its been quiet.

So, a cheap, onsite make millions of them to go with millions of new street tree locations (and other gardens) solar pruner is possible. You can put the laser-pruner in another drill hole, and get enough life out of it so that, if the vision is one doily one tree, there is one tree remaining per doily out of the 3-11 that got seed drilled.

Let's make the street trees much more beautiful. The nurturing water-catchment funnels could be pretty and do not need symmetry; sculptural beauty encouraged! When planning, people could pick Trees, Doilies, and (temporary) biodegradeable nurturant funnels online. Many different artistic and sculptural shapes of funnels could be at any street. You may have noticed that sometimes on interior rock climbing walls, handholds have interesting rounded shapes and look quite pretty. That diversity of shapes and colors could be at every new tree planting location.

Also, you've seen a watering can spout; the funnel could actually just have contours and 1 mm holes on its upper surface and in contour valleys and look like a solid object. Genetic algorithms and neural networks with human response to beauty as guides make the world's most beautiful sculptures at the funnel shapes.

Popular online voting of which funnels could make sure that before the trees got large, people really liked the Sculpture (funnel) garden the doily visibly features on (say) 14 new-tree plantings around the block, even before the trees get big.

So does just drilling and planting three to eleven 1.1cm tree seed and funnel holes really grow viable street trees? I think so, because the funnels water catchement (and, as an option funnel base fertilizer depot) nurtures the trees. The doily lets people know they are supposed to enjoy it, and simultaneously walk around it, saving the young trees.

A few words about using lasers to prune and cull: Prior to 3 years This is a neural network genetic algorithm beautiful sculpture ensemble with some small plants. At 3 years you might have 1/3 survivors (about 4 trees).

To ensure you get just one big tree out of the thing you laser cull/prune to get 2 trees ages 3-5, to ensure 1 or more survivors, and at 7 years and up cull to 1 tree. As described I think automated nonhuman culling of the trees can be installed for less than 1$ (PV laser pruner).

Zero human care, ever, and the most beautiful trees and surroundings possible with the least installation expense.

Something libertarians can appreciate: There is a private sector incentive to Install a street tree arrangement every time a commercial building or dwelling changes hands; The real estate professional does it and talks up how the house is worth $1-40K more 15 or 30 years hence (when paid off/sold) from having beautiful trees in front of it, and that's either a point of value from working with Century 21 Real Estate, or the real estate professionals do it on their own because they earn much more than installation expense from the (slight) increment on their commission as the house/real estate is now projectively worth $1-40k more in the future.

So, at annotations, how would you make increasing the number of street trees even more affordable?