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Green Greetings
For more than 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.
| Tree and Plant Sale with Dept. of Parks & Parkways |
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This is a BIG plant sale with the greatest educational
support from the city's experts. The Department of
Parks and Parkways staff will help you make the right
plant selections and offer guidance on expansive
landscape ideas or single plant selection. Dan Gill
will be offering a workshop and live broadcast from
the site in Gentilly. It is the happening plant place,
8 a.m. to 12 noon next to Dillard University.
The information on our web site includes a list of
many of the plants and trees we will have for sale.
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| Buckmoth Caterpillars - sign up NOW! |
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Orders are being taken now for Buckmoth caterpillar
spraying. The first to sign up receive priority attention.
Spraying takes place when the caterpillars hatch,
usually in March. You may also order fertilization and
termite treatment. To order and pay online click here.
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| Schoolyard Gardens |
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Supporter Julian Good of MDRT
Foundation and Macon Fry the Parkway Partners
"Garden Guy" look over the construction of a new
school garden.
Students and
teachers are busy planting fruit trees, vegetable, and
butterfly gardens at Lafayette Academy, Edward
Hynes, and The International School of Louisiana.
Best of all, the effort is supporting the science and
math curriculum. With Macon Fry, the Parkway
Partners Garden Guy, and lots of parents,
teachers, and student volunteers Parkway Partners
was able to add 3 new sites to existing gardens at
Benjamin Franklin and Lusher. Parkway Partners
continues its dedication to the school children of New
Orleans by providing environmental education that
enhances all areas of the standard curriculum. The
schoolyard programs are made possible through
support from the Million Dollar Round Table
Foundation, Cox Charities and the Garden Study Club
of New Orleans.
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10 4 the Hood |
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"10 For The Hood is a resounding success and street
trees are being planted throughout the city! More than
600 sizable trees donated by Parkway Partners are
being distributed to 35 neighborhoods as hundreds of
participants work hard to ReLeaf New Orleans.
In Faubourg St. John Linda Landesburg, Bobby
Wozniak, and Bob McGuire organized twenty-five
residents to cover the neighborhood with Redbuds
and Japanese Magnolia trees.
Holy Cross
neighbors led by Kathy Muse collected and distributed
more than 90 trees, all in a pouring rainstorm.
In
Treme, Adolph Bynum was so successful with the
initial neighborhood planting of 38 trees that 23 more
residents signed on and are ready to plant!
In
Milneburg, near UNO, Peggy Rosefeldt and her
neighbors , pictured above, planted 20 trees.
The
Tupelo Street Neighborhood working with volunteers
from Boston Agriculture College are planting 20 white
crepe myrtles that will kick-start the rebuilding of their
9th Ward neighborhood.
As the current planting season comes to an end it's
not too soon to get organized for fall. For information
contact Jo Ann at jalbrecht@parkwaypartnersnola.org
Send a picture of your group planting trees donated by
Parkway Partners and we can post on our website.
For more information about ReLeaf New Orleans click here . . .
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