I came across this article in a local newspaper: Drought takes toll on Leyland cypress trees. I had to smile while reading it, as I despise the tree, and feel that it symbolizes all that is wrong with mediocre (design-wise) and unsympathetic (to their environment/s) housing and landscaping.
The tree is apparently drought-sensitive, and Robert Jackson, a professor of global environmental change and biology at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, speculated that "a fungal disease may have contributed to the death of the trees," and that "extreme temperatures and drought can weaken trees, making them more susceptible to pathogens."
A landscape architect and urban forester at the Chapel Hill Public Works Department "recommended that landowners instead plant the Eastern red cedar, a native tree that looks like the Leyland cyprus but is hardier." So, it turns out that a native tree is replacing a tree that is unsuitable for the local climate... imagine that.
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