About six years ago, I wrote a letter ‘Planting palm trees’ (Feb 6, 2017) about the folly of planting such trees in Islamabad. In fact, these full-grown palm trees are now nothing but an ugly and hideous sight. I have no idea what is the compulsion of replanting full-grown palm trees instead of patronising and sticking to our own indigenous trees, like the evergreen pine. They will not be able to do this by planting palm trees. Even if there is some reason to insist on having palm trees, why not plant young saplings instead of replanting full-grown trees?
