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Old 05-19-2013, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by travelguy View Post
99% of all plants that die are MURDERED! It is extremely unusual for a plant to be inherently bad/diseased/etc. Plant abuse should be punishable by having a garden hose attached to your hand and being forced to water the plants until the plantings are well established.
The more water that gets pumped out of the ground, the more sinkholes that occur. Perhaps someone made the concious decision to conserve water and figured it was less expensive to replace palm trees than filling sinkholes with cement, which btw is very expensive.