Saturday, February 29 – Archer Braid Trail, SW 91st Street @ SW 46th Boulevard, Gainesville
We planted twenty-nine trees (sand live oaks, Quercus geminata, and longleaf pines, Pinus palustris) on a portion of the Archer Braid Trail, along SW 91st Street between SW 46th Boulevard and Archer Road.
Tuesday, February 11 – SW Side of NW 23rd Avenue & the I-75 Corridor, Gainesville
We planted nine trees, including winged elms (Ulmus alata), live oaks (Quercus geminata), and southern red cedars (Juniperus silicicola), on the sloping southwest side of NW 23rd Avenue & the I-75 Corridor, near Santa Fe College.
Friday, January 17 – Arbor Day @ Cellon Oak Park, Gainesville
We celebrated Florida’s Arbor Day in the shade of the magnificent State Co-Champion Cellon Live Oak. (At more than 90 feet in height, 30 feet in circumference, and with a 160 foot crown spread, the Cellon Oak is one of the two largest live oaks [Quercus virginiana] in the state of Florida.) The ceremony included an Arbor Day proclamation by Alachua County Commissioner Marihelen Wheeler, remarks by officials of the Department of Alachua Parks and Conservation Lands, and a reading from William Bartram’s 1791 Travels on the live oaks of Florida. Other human participants included members of the Cellon family, UF students, and a local cub scout troop and their friends and families. After the ceremony, twenty-three trees were planted along the perimeter of the park meadow, including included pecans (Carya illinoinensis), American persimmons (Diospyros virginiana), southern magnolias (Magnolia grandiflora), and spruce pines (Pinus glabra).
Photographs by A. Ewert-Harpold, T. Harpold, C. Houder, D. Jordan, and S. Xie. / CC BY