There are many large trees in our neighborhood. Most of these are old, huge mango trees as the village used to be a mango orchard or farm. Each lot We are told by old timers here that through the years, they planted other trees including narra and acacia trees. Many residents also planted fruit trees in addition to the ones already growing in the area. These included kaimito, santol, pomelo and lanka trees you now find scattered around the village. I've seen many trees fall or damaged due to typhoons but many seem to be resilient enough to recover if they are not totally uprooted and people just leave them be.
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| This mango tree practically is lying on its side and fortunately was not totally uprooted. Village maintenance staff pruned the branches that were damaged especially those that became road obstacles. The tree is alive and well, and continues to bear the kalabaw variety of mangoes every year. |
This is a sort of requiem for other trees that are now gone. There are currently many new houses being built around our village. Most owners, architects and engineers don't really care about trees even the larger, older mango, narra, acacia, santol and kaimito trees that typically are located in the lots. Everybody seems to want a cleared lot to build their homes on using templates or designs usually for those typical subdivisions that have cookie cutter structures. In our case, we didn't go that way. We retained the old mango tree and relatively younger narra tree that are now magnificent landmarks for our home. Our mango tree was victimized by a powerful typhoon months after we moved in. Fortunately, it only lost one of its big branches and the tree survived to grow into its broccoli-like shape today.
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