PROJECTDORMANT SEASON TRANSPLANTING PROJECT Cost-savings achieved via sweat equity! Seven valuable trees were saved from destruction in the late fall of 2016 through a planned multi-year collaborative effort. In preparation for this project, Tree Advisory Board members root-pruned and prepped for lifting these young trees during a period of two growing seasons. The trees were unfortunately planted in a spot that later was slated for paving over by the extension of a parking lot on the Haldane campus. Through the collaborative efforts of the Haldane grounds crew, village Highway Department staff and Tree Advisory Board volunteers, these trees were lifted after entering full dormancy in December 2016. Two of these trees that were most suitable were then transplanted near the front entrance of Haldane Elementary and Middle School: two Prunus serrulata "Snowgoose" Cherry trees. One additional donated tree, appropriately named Styphnolobium japonicum, or "Scholar Tree", was also planted just east of the flag pole circle in honor of all hard working Haldane scholars. The five remaining trees best suited to street tree sites--three Zelkova serrata, one small Tilia cordata "Greenspire" and one Syringa reticulata "Ivory Silk" --were translplanted at appropriate sites on village streets. Though several of these trees were in various stages of training and/or healing from prior deer damage, we are hopeful that we will see all of them leaf out next spring. Time will tell! We would like to thank Haldane's Mike Twardy and Gary Van Asselt as well as Growing Haldane, for their collaborative help with this project and a huge thank you to our hardworking Village Highway Crew who did the actual lifting and planting work! Upadated photos to come in the spring... |
The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now. |