Give your tangerine tree a new home: green group
The founder of a green group said on Thursday that people can deliver their unwanted Lunar New Year tangerine trees to farms or even some schools across Hong Kong, rather than throwing them away after the festive period.  "The farmer can use it, plant it in their farm so that trees can stay alive, and they will keep them and there will be organic tangerines in the next year," Yau Wing-kwong from the Environmental Association said on RTHK's Hong Kong Today programme.  "That is also good for the tangerines, for the farmers, and also good for biodiversity because butterflies and caterpillars feed on the plants, and also the flowers become a nectar prime for butterflies and bees. This is good for the farm and also good for the environment." Yau said people could also deliver their trees to the group's butterfly reserve in Tai Po. Another alternative, he said, is that people can keep the trees and care for them themselves, using the fruit they produce to make preserved tangerines.