Trees Along LDS Temple

The Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Cebu is now in operation for a year since opening to "patron" in June last year.One can be awed by the program they must have in maintaining the temple and the complex looking new and beautiful everyday.Every 6 months the temple is closed for maintenance activities-that explains everything. After a year of being a sight to behold along Lahug highway, however, one would notice that the landscape has changed as well. Gone are the age old fire tree, and the thick "kalachuchi" tree is getting a "skinhead" so to speak. What's in their mind,it is pretty much assumed that the aim was to make the temple more beautiful to look at.The thought that trees symbolizes life,strength and beauty,the sight of the temple without those tree and kalachuchi leaves simply awkward.Is it not that the beauty be enhance rather than a sudden attention getting landscaping move?