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Green Greetings
For 25 years, Parkway Partners, the City of New
Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways and
citizens from neighborhoods throughout
the metro area have worked together to improve the
quality of life through our green spaces.
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at Second Saturday on January 12th. Join us to
receive free trees for your home landscape. Free
trees are in 3 to 5 gallon pots and include crape
myrtle, lacebark elm, redbud, dawn redwood and
more.
Parkway Partners will be distributing the free
trees and selling fruit trees 9 A.M. to noon.
At 11 A.M. a local leading expert on how to
care for your home-cultivated fruit trees will make an
interactive presentation.
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| Beware! Buck Moths are Flying |
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And that means the voracious leaf-eating caterpillars
will again invade our majestic live oaks at their most
vulnerable moment. The caterpillars feast on tender
young leaves the oaks sprout in late March. New
Orleans' oaks are still stressed from storm damage,
flooding and drought and require extra TLC for at least
the next five years, a make or break it period for many
of the stately, historic trees, according to the
Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
The best defense against the caterpillars is a good
offense against buck moths, and this is why Parkway
Partners invites citizens to help us preserve our city's
valuable trees on public property by purchasing buck
moth spraying, fertilization or termite treatment
services for trees at a discounted price. Save Our
Trees is offered by Parkway Partners in collaboration
with the city's Department of Parks and Parkways.
Buck moth caterpillar spraying must be done in
March, when the larvae hatch. Fertilization and termite
treatment services are offered year round.
oak tree photograph courtesy of Pat Burke
http://patburke.digitalphotochat.com/
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| Thank You Partners |
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Albert "Chip" Carpenter of Smith Barney is proud to be
a Parkway Partner. As a partner since 2006, Smith
Barney has maintained the neutral grounds at 1100
Poydras St. and will involve other businesses
along the street to build a consolidated plan. If you
would like information on adopting a neutral ground
contact Deb at 504-6920-2224.
Many thanks to all our partners who have adopted
sections of neutral grounds around the City of New
Orleans!
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| Be Green, Be a Member |
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Your gift of membership provides critical financial
support for Parkway partners and enables us to make
a broad impact on our green spaces. If you are not
already a member, please consider becoming one.
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| 2008 Annual Tree & Plant Sale |
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March 8 is the annual Tree & Plant sale - the largest
sale of all, handled in partnership with the
Department of Parks and Parkways at their Gentilly
site
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Broad Street Planted
In Style |
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168 Magnolias, Pistache, Hollies and Crape Myrtle
give Broad Street a fresh new look. The neutral
ground was planted with support from volunteers,
arborists and the New Orleans Department of Parks
and Parkways. Simultaneously, groups of residents
planted smaller trees on adjoining streets, to ReLeaf
New Orleans-Parkway Partners' crusade to offset
Katrina's damage to New Orleans' trees.
City Council Member Stacy Head, pictured above with
daughter finalizes the planting of a Holly with Parkway
Partners Executive Director Jean Fahr. Head
proclaimed December 14 as New Orleans' own Arbor
Day and recognized the volunteers from the
Downtown Neighborhood Improvement Association,
Broad Community Connections, Historic Faubourg
Treme Association, Esplanade Ridge Neighborhood
Association, the office of the New Orleans Public
Defenders, and Phoenix of New Orleans, who put the
trees in the ground. She also thanked the
foundations and corporations who have contributed
funding to the ReLeaf New Orleans initiative. ReLeaf
New Orleans donors include Alliance for Community
Trees, the Almar Foundation, Booth-Bricker Fund, the
Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation,
Chevron Corporation, Home Depot, the Louisiana
Department of Agriculture and Forestry, the New
Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways, the Reily
Foundation and the Edward Wisner Fund.
Broad Street is the second major corridor planted by
Parkway Partners through ReLeaf New Orleans. In
the 2006/2007 planting season, Parkway Partners
planted the Elysian Fields Avenue corridor. The
agency is coordinating planting of neighborhoods
through "10 for the Hood", a ReLeaf New Orleans
program that calls for neighbors to band together in
planning for ten or more street-to-sidewalk trees
For more information about ReLeaf New Orleans click here . . .
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