Mistake leads to two trees getting the chop

THE front verge near the newsagency in Ardross Street in Applecross is looking bare after two jacaranda trees were “accidentally” given the chop because of a “mix-up” in street numbers.

The large trees on the street that the jacaranda festival calls home were cut down and left as stumps after a mistake by the City of Melville last week.

But the council has promised to pull out the stumps, restore the fake turf surrounding the trees and replace them with similar jacarandas.
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Aren't those tree choppers thinking when they see perfectly healthy trees?