View from Kallenbach Drive on the Linksfield Ridge

View from Kallenbach Drive on the Linksfield Ridge, looking north over the suburbs of Linksfield, Orange Grove, Sydenham, Orchards, Oaklands, Highlands North, Waverley, Melrose North, Bramley, Illovo and Sandton.

Photo by Carlo Kaminski

Mystery Colourful Trees on William Nicol

Meet 10 of The World's Most Famous Trees

I could not resist posting this link here. Click on the link http://bit.ly/iE78V1 to see that others are placing importance on preserving trees.

http://bit.ly/iE78V1

Urban Forest in Bryanston

This Pine tree forest is in the middle of a residential area. It occupies an entire block but used to be much larger. Residential housing now stands where part of the Pine forest was. Many people living in Johannesburg do not realise that this forest exists.

Purple Blotches

Jacaranda trees create purple blotches in the forest of green.

Credit to: joburg.org.za

A Green Canopy

A green canopy covers many streets during the summer months.

Credit to: joburg.org.za

Summer Storm

I know that this blog is meant to be about the trees in Johannesburg but without the rain, we would not have any trees.

Thank you for the submitted pictures to Petra Gruner.