I was actually logging on here today to ask if anyone had heard about any replanting efforts. In 2012, it was understandable. In 2013 I was a little miffed. But a concrete basin and a few dogwoods won't fit the bill in 2014, you know? Something MUST be done to disguise the building.
Everyone is asking for trees, and I think that has to be the long-term solution.
But here's a short term one:
A large trellis wall covered in crawling vines. This wall could be removed from the actual building facade and in-line with the stone wall. Given just a few months, vines would overtake the wall (which makes sense from the ride's story anyway) and the addition of a few large, fake, sinister looking branches snarling around the wall would at least make the approach to the showbuilding beautiful and mesmerizing.
[img=660x495]http://statebystategardening.com/images/uploads/article_uploads/12Sept_W1-A_1b.jpg[/img]
This would also solve another issue - launching out of the forest into an open field.
The exit of the showbuilding could be a continuation of that trellis wall, but a tunnel.
That not only makes the second launch unbelievably beautiful and plain-old
cool, but also disguises that track from riders about to
enter the showbuilding, so they wouldn't know exactly where they were headed.
To construct these large trellis structures would take no time at all, and the vines would be good to go by mid-summer or earlier, especially with multiple plantings on the bottom, middle, and top of them. It would disguise the showbuilding AND add some greenery to the area, while also creating a really unbelievable transition on the second launch. Who wouldn't want to launch into and through that tunnel?
Something just has to be done about this, and I think trees need to be planted like, now, but as was said, even if they plant saplings right this minute we're still looking at a big, blank showbuilding for at least 10 more years.
EDIT: I wish I had the Photoshop skills to make a quick little mock-up of this. Sorry guys!
