Quote Originally Posted by LXNDR View Post
i'm really curious how trees survive without it in other parts of the world

basically if you wish to make a city look like a village daub trees with lime

man, it's so lime
ok this at least has explanation, is there explanation for painting border stones white?
Well that's interesting because some of the countries where trees are painted have exactly the same climate and flora / fauna as countries where trees are not painted.
So who knows?

As for painted stones, the story I heard in school is that stones are sometimes painted white or reflective paint to be visible for low flying airplanes.
It must be a very old practice though, because throughout my lifetime at least, there have been more modern ways of navigating for airplanes...

A lot of weird things like this though, are from the War.... For example removing street signs... So if the enemy invades, they won't be able to know what street they are on... LOL! To this day there are still places in the UK where there are practically no street signs, and this is the explanation I have heard.

When I was going by train in Romania, I swear most stations had no sign to show the traveller what station you were at, and they did not announce it either. You were forced to ask somebody if you needed to know. Half the time you were not even sure whether the train was even at a station or not.
This too, is supposedly some kind of old paranoia related practice, although it's hard to notice what difference it makes.