plantings (news)

2003 ReLeafing Day planting sites

Historic Preston Taylor Homes
A matching Urban Forestry grant helped buy the 95 trees for the historic
Preston Taylor Homes in the 40th Avenue North and Clifton Avenue
neighborhood. Species planted in the area left bare when the original homes
were razed for MDHA to rebuild the homes included 8 amur maple, 5 burr oak,
4 crab apple, 5 crape myrtle, 9 flowering cherry, 5 flowering dogwood, 6
golden rain, 5 green ash, 8 Southern magnolia, 10 redbud, 15 red maple, 5
red oak, 5 sugar maple, and 5 sycamore.

The Tree Foundation’s partners in securing the matching grant are Metro
Beautification and Environment commission, Metro Parks, and the Metro Tree
Advisory committee. The USDA Forest Service-funded program is administered
by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, Division of Forestry.

Rosebank Elementary School Playground
Volunteers, including Nashville Electric Service employees and their
families, planted 49 trees and shrubs for screening and shading inside and
outside the fenced area of the Rosebank Elementary School Playground at 1012
Preston Avenue.

NES provided 20 forest pansy redbud, 2 Southern magnolia, 15 trident maple,
2 white dogwood, and 10 Yoshino cherry trees. Metro Parks personnel in
collaboration with NES urban forester Glenn Springer selected the species
for the new playground.

Hospital Hospitality House of Nashville
The Tree Foundation provided 13 trees – redbud, Yoshino cherry, and hornbeam
– that were planted on the grounds of the newly remodeled facility at 214
Reidhurst Avenue for families of patients in nearby hospitals.

Habitat plantings
Habitat volunteers planted 9 Yoshino cheery trees provided by Tree
Foundation at 9 new homes in Providence Park, located near the intersection
of Donna Kay Drive and Paragon Drive. Raintree subdivision, located off
Brick Church Pike, received 3 crape myrtle, 3 bald cypress, 3 Yoshino cherry
for the entrance and four new residences from the Foundation.

Neighborhoods
Historic Germantown – Foundation trees: Yoshimo cherry at Assumption Church
and amur maples at Centerstone School and Monroe Street United Methodist
Church. Neighborhood trees planted on Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Avenues North,
and Taylor Avenue: 2 cedars, 1 Carolina silver bell, 1 magnolia, 1Yoshino
cherry, 2 redbud, 2 weeping crab apple, 6 dogwood, 1 Chinese fringe, 1
cherry, 1 flowering peach, 1 Japanese red maple, 2 sweet gum, 1 tulip poplar

Greenwood – Foundation tree: Crape myrtle at Hattie Cotton Elementary School

Hillsboro/West End – Foundation trees: 3 amur maples in front of Cavert side
of Eakin Elementary School. Neighborhood trees: 17 in public places, 70 in
individual yards, 30 shrubs.

Rolling Acres – Foundation trees: 3 yellowwoods on Shelby Park Golf Course,
Neighborhood trees: 3 service berries on Shelby Park Golf Course.

Richland/West End – Foundation trees: 1 yellowwood, 1 green ash, 1 amur
maple on the I-440 right-of-way on West End Place. Neighborhood trees: 46
trees -- 10 on the right-of-way of I-440 and 4 on Murphy Road, with the
remainder in individual yards.

Sylvan Heights/Normandy – Foundation trees: 3 amur maples on Normandy
Circle: Neighborhood trees: 3 dogwood, 1 redbud, 1 red maple on Normandy
Circle.

Woodland-in-Waverly – Foundation trees: 1 redbud, 2 Yoshino cherry on
“parkette” at Prentice and Grantland Avenues. Neighborhood trees: 1 black
gum, 3 crape myrtle, 1 blue spruce, 2 redbud, 2 blue atlas cedar, 2 bald
cypress.