Joint Highlands Arbor Day

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Organizer - Jefferson County Master Gardener Association
Email: jcmgaevents@gmail.com

Website - Jack Francis
Email: JackFrancis@BellSouth.net
Home: (502) 451-8611

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2014 Tree Give-away

Saturday, 12Apr2013, 9:00a-1:00p
Louisville Nature Center
3745 Illinois Av, 40213
(502) 458-1328 Nature Center

A neighborhood event in the Highlands for Kentucky Arbor Day will give away trees to all visitors. Sponsors: Jefferson County Master Gardener Association, Highlands-Douglass & Deer Park Neighborhoods and the Louisville Nature Center. This is an ongoing effort to reverse deforestation of the planet and to slow global warming and climate change.

The 12 to 24-inch, bare-root seedlings to be given away include both canopy and understory seedlings.

The understory species (which grow to some 30 feet) are:

Dogwood
Washington Hawthorn

Canopy species (which can grow to 70 to 200-foot trees) are:

Southern Red Oak
White Oak
Bald Cypress
Pecan
River Birch

(See detailed tree info below to help you choose - click on blue hyperlink.)

Arbor Day 2014 - Sat April 12th

Google map for Douglass Community Center from Bardstown Road.

The Douglass Community Center at 2305 Douglass Boulevard, 40205, four blocks east of Bardstown Road, is the site of the joint Highlands tree give-away from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (or later), rain or shine. Additional parking is adjacent to the Division 5 Police Sub Station and along Douglass Boulevard. The event offers wrapped trees, light refreshments and plenty of information from the Master Gardeners with the Jefferson County Cooperative Extension Service, UK College of Agriculture, as well as expert advice from the forest ranger, arborists, tree huggers, and area naturalists.

Previous participants and sponsors include the Belknap, Deer Park, Highlands-Douglass and Upper Highlands neighborhood associations, Louisville Metro Councilors Tom Owen and Tina Ward-Pugh, Boy Scout Troop 40, CES Master Gardeners, the Olmsted Parks Conservancy, the Highlands Community Ministries, foresters with the KDF, the Bellarmine Biology Club, the city arborist, The Bakery at Sullivan University, the Blossom Shop, Horton's Hardware, Anna Shea's Antiques & Collectibles and Antiques at the Douglass Loop, as well as many neighbors, friends, and private donors.