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Standard planting in a parking lot island

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parking island with red maple trees

Here is a group of standard-issue parking lot islands, each with two red maple trees. This almost never works. Red maple can grow OK in northern climates in this situation but not in the south. The space is too small to sustain tree growth for very long.