New Trees in SFHH

[LaTiNoObSeSeDSFGAm]

SFHH put new trees to replace the old dead ones. I like that they did this but dont you think that there going to die again half way through the season like they did last year? Or will they take better care of the pine trees this year than they did last season. I know that you have to be in tropical weather to have trees but I remember last year before they opened SFHH they said that the trees are heated in "some" way ( sorry I forgot ) so they can be alive. Does anybody know anything about this?

[Chitown]

These trees can live in our climate during the warm summer months. However, these are tropical trees which need water and we hardly saw any of that last summer. Hot temps and dry weather, even a palm will start to shrivel up.

I thought for sure they were going to remove the palms last year and put them in a greenhouse or something.

If they keep dieing I think they will switch to fake palms eventually. You can get some very realistic looking silk plants so I see no reason why they can't do this with a fake palm.

[B&MGuy29]

Well if you remember from when they had media day last year it was stated that they are cold-weather palms and will do just fine, unless we have another drought this summer like last year.
It was also stated that the trees were going to replaced every season so guests would get the feeling of being in a tropical paradise when they came to Hurricane Harbor!!
Im wondering if they will continues to replace them though since the corp.is under new management.

[LAFFfan4lyfe]

it seems like a pain to keep replacing them every year, but if that makes them happy, meaning having real ones for the atmosphere, then that's great. I personally like the real palms, but it seems like the process of doing this for as long as the park is open seems like it might be a hassle.

[Timmy179]

Not to much different than replacing the 1000's of flowers inside the park every year

[greatamerica2003]

It was a rough summer because of the dry heat we had in 2005. Water was at a premium, and they didn't keep up with the watering of the palms.

There is no palm tree that will last over the winter, thats a myth. But being that palms are relativley cheap (the figure I heard was about $20 a tree) when purchased 100 at a time and the installation is quick and easy, it makes sense to just pluck the dead ones and put new ones in every year, rather than spend over $1000 dollars for one fake tree. Some quick math would tell me that to replace all 100 palms with fakes would be more than $100,000. To replace them with real ones every year would be $2,000 a year. So it would take 50 years to realize the savings for fake vs. real.

Looks like the real palms win out.

[zjohn1988]

Plus it gives landscaping something to do when they're bored

[shocker]

To replace them with real ones every year would be $2,000 a year.

100 trees x $200 = $20,000, you missed a zero, honest mistake.

[greatamerica2003]

Well actually that was my bad. The figure was not $200 a tree but only $20. My typo but the figure is still the same at $2000 a year.