Opinion: The quiet clearcut: Infill shouldn't cost Edmonton its trees and gardens (Edmonton)

 

Walk through one of Edmonton’s older neighbourhoods and you’ll notice the yards feel layered. There are big trees overhead: elms, ashes, old poplars, but there is also something else: lilacs along the fence line, a row of currants tucked beside the garage, maybe a Saskatoon bush that looks like it has always been there. In some backyards, rhubarb and horseradish still pushes up every spring, even if no one remembers who planted it. 

 

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