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Green Greetings
Parkway Partners empowers residents to
improve green spaces and works closely with
the City of New Orleans Department of Parks
and Parkways.
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Please check your trees. Mother's Day weekend
is usually the peak of the swarming season.
Check for mud tubes or mud packs on the outside
of your tree. Formosan termites can also
live in live trees feeding off of the dead
tissue inside
the tree. If spotted, have your tree treated
by calling 620-2224 for a fee of $130.
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| 2nd Saturday May 8 |
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Meet the Natives on Saturday, May 8, 9
- 12 noon at Parkway Partners' Greenhouse.
Native plants will be sold, along with many
other companion plants for your garden.
Indoor Plants, Mother's Day Planters, and
Citrus trees will also be available.
At 10 am, John Mayronne, a Landscape
Architect who has extensive design experience
using natives, will introduce native South
Louisiana plants, how they are best used in
your garden, and why we should use natives.
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| Tammany Baumgarten |
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Tammany Baumgarten (Baum gardens and
President of MGGNO) admires the colorful
array of plants at the ARC garden managed by
Master Gardeners with ARC participants. The
seeds were secured from Parkway Partners via
donation from Ed Hume.
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| The ABA Family 2010 Spring Conference |
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Volunteers from the ABA Family 2010 Spring
Conference took a break from classes on April
15th to
help the ReLeaf New Orleans, Parkway Partners
Program. Trees were mulched with long leaf
pine straw to preserve moisture to the
roots, prevent
weeds, and protect the trunks from weed wackers.
Volunteers mulched young trees planted in
2008 by Parkway Partners along Broad Street
from Napoleon to Esplanade.
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Become a Tree Trooper |
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Register today to become involved in
restoring New Orleans' tree canopy. Take part
in a nationally acclaimed local volunteer
training program that educates
neighborhood-based volunteers to properly
care for mature and newly planted trees. Tree
Trooper Training is free and open to the
public. Dates are June 1, 3, 8 and 12.
Participants may come from throughout the
greater New Orleans area, including Jefferson
and St. Bernard Parishes. Click
here for a registration form.
The ReLeaf New Orleans initiative
continues to be a success. To date 7824
trees have been planted in neighborhoods
throughout New Orleans. As the planting
season ended there was a flurry of
activity in Central City with Jericho Road
volunteers planting 30 trees at 28 new
residences and Chris Maheu leading his
neighborhood in planting 12 live oaks on Gen
Haig St.
If you are interested in ReLeafing your
neighborhood complete the agreement
forms and submit them as soon as possible
so that you
can be the first group approved when planting
season begins again in October.
Chris Maheu and his neighbors plant
Live Oaks in Lakeview
Information about ReLeaf New Orleans click here. . .
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