I think you are talking about the two on the top with the flag pole in particular? I took these photos in late February near the end of winter, so the fir trees were the only green things around.
I'm fairly sure those were transplanted up there. They were probably carefully selected for desired shape and look and expensive. The city park trees here have 2 levels of maintenance, one is just city workers following simple instructions and the other is arborists and botanists. I would imagine those trees are mostly still cared for by the arborists and botanists since they are centerpiece trees. They are definitely tagged.
I actually took a picture of a tree ID tag recently. As you can see this is tree number 1765 in the park. It had its last check-up from the pine tree doctor in February. It received 50ml of tree medicine and this was its 4th dosage. It also has an instruction from the tree hospital officials that it is not to be pruned.
Yeah what's green stands out and I was reminded of everything else I've seen. Those memories added the leaves to the rest of the trees... and I was blown away again... LOL!
It's cool they all get to see the doctor. Where I live the trees are boring and natural but I still like them.
I thoroughly enjoyed this post in its entity. I just got thing for trees, man.
Thanks for the compliments. It took me a while to get this post together. I have a few other ones in the works that are going to take a while for me to get out just because of the complexity.
I think a tree doctor just trying to make the tree look its best is better than lumberjacks posing as environmentalists. I watched a new Michael Moore film and they were talking about using trees to make sustainable carbon-neutral green energy. Adding in shredded tires to get the incineration efficiency yields just right was my favourite 'green touch'. There was another part when some dude excitedly said there was no downside to shredding massive amounts of trees to make electricity.
Natural forests are very important, but even in Canada most of them are selectively harvested (or strip-cut when they can get away with it).
Now, most of the trees here have leaves again.