Tree Planting Projects
Cherry Tree Planting
Japanese Consul-General Hiroshi Sato
and MTAC member Randall Lantz
plant a cherry tree to launch the Nashville Cherry Blossom
Festival.
Releafing Day 2009
The eighth annual Releafing Day will be held on Saturday, November 21, starting at 8:30 a.m. The plan is to plant over 100 powerline-approved trees in the Inglewood neighborhood. Homeowners and volunteers will work with The Nashville Tree Foundation, Nashville Electric Service, Metro Tree Advisory Committee, Metro Parks, and Metro Beautification and Environment Commission to help beautify Inglewood. Homeowners and volunteers will meet at the Riverwood Church of Christ located at 1904 McGavock Pike to get started. If you would like to join in and help Beautify Nashville, or for more information, please visit www.nashvilletreefoundation.org or call (615)292-5175.
MTAC members Randall Lantz and Dick Page conduct a demonstration planting in preparation for Releafing Day 2009, the Nashville Tree Foundation's annual Planting.
MTAC
member Dwight Beard waters a
newly planted tree on Releafing Day.
Releafing Day 2008
The
seventh annual ReLeafing Day was held November 22. Volunteers
planted 30 powerline-approved trees in Inglewood, an
urban neighborhood in East Nashville. Mayor Karl Dean assisted
in planting a redbud sapling tree.
Photos from the
Releaf Event
Volunteers and homeowners planted the homeowner's choice of four species -- forest pansy redbud, stellar pink dogwood, yoshino cherry, and Greenleaf American holly. Again this year NES will provide Microhorrizae to help the trees get established and grow, and Terra-serb, an organic starch product that absorbs up to 400 times its weight in water and releases it slowly. Both go in the planting hole and should help trees live and thrive even in drought conditions. Members of Tree Advisory Committee assisted and supervised the volunteer planters in the proper planting of trees.
Releafing Day is a joint project of Nashville Tree Foundation, Metro Tree Advisory Committee, Metro Parks, Metro Beautification and Environment Commission, and Nashville Electric Service. The project's goal is to demonstrate the best trees to plant under powerlines that will need little or any pruning during their lifetime. Metro Tree Advisory Committee developed a list of 19 species with an average maximum height of 20 feet at maturity that are considered powerline-approved.
ReLeafing Day evolved in 2002 from the highly successful, award-winning ReLeaf Nashville project that planted 6,757 trees 1998-2001 to replace some of the 20,000 destroyed by tornadoes April 16, 1998. ReLeafing Day is held on the Saturday before Thanksgiving each year.
Nashville Tree Foundation is a non-profit organization formed in 1986 to preserve and enhance Nashville's urban forest by educating the public, planting trees in urban areas, identifying the oldest and largest trees in Davidson County, and designating arboretums. Since its founding, the Tree Foundation has added more than 7,895 two-caliper trees to the urban landscape.
ReLeafing Day 2006
Nearly
100 volunteers planted more than 70 trees in Sylvan Heights
and Germantown November 18 at Nashville Tree Foundation's
fifth annual ReLeafing Day.MTAC
member Stephan Kivett digs a hole in Germantown
Cleanup Project - Tom Joy Head Start
In November, Dwight Beard, Tree Committee member, Hands on Nashville volunteers, Tom Joy Headstart staff, and Beautification staff cleared weeds and debris and planted pansies and shrubs at Tom Joy Head Start.
Dwight Beard, Tree Advisory Committee member, coaches
volunteers in landscaping techniques
