2006 PLANTING
November 18, 2006
- Sylvan Heights
- Germantown
Partners
- Nashville Tree Foundation
- Metro Tree Advisory Committee
- Metro Beautification and Environment Commission
- Nashville Electric Service
Nashville Tree Foundation works 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.
Volunteers plant a tree in Germantown.
Urban neighborhoods get powerline-
approved trees on ReLeafing Day
Nearly 100 Nashville Tree Foundation volunteers planted trees in two urban neighborhoods on November 18, the fifth annual ReLeafing Day.
Sylvan Heights and Germantown have 95 new trees, many of them powerline-approved to reduce NES trimming.
“This is a continuation of the innovative and successful 2005 demonstration planting project when 142 powerline-approved trees were added to the urban landscape at three different sites,” Brown said.
Sylvan Heights received 35 powerline-approved trees and 30 other trees and shrubs for Park Avenue Enhanced Option School, by the community garden, and two gateways into the neighborhood. More than 30 powerline-approved trees were planted in the Germantown neighborhood.
Members of the Metro Tree Advisory Committee will be at both locations to supervise and assist in proper planting methods. Beard’s Landscaping is providing a water truck to water the newly planted trees.
ReLeafing Day evolved out of Nashville Tree Foundation’s highly successful, award-winning ReLeaf Nashville project that planted 6,757 shade trees from 1998 to 2001 to replace some of the 20,000 felled by tornadoes April 16, 1998.