75 new trees coming to Klutho Park

[Lunican]

Jun 3 in JACKSONVILLE, FL â€" In partnership with Greenscape of Jacksonville, volunteers will plant 75 trees at the Henry J. Klutho Park.

Trees for Tracks is a CSX program, in partnership with City Year and the Alliance for Community Trees, that will plant one tree for each of the 21,000 miles of track across our network.



THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2010
CSX TREES FOR TRACKS IN JACKSONVILLE, FL
HENRY J. KLUTHO PARK
1:00 PM â€" 3:00 PM

Sign up as a volunteer:
http://rsvp.keeponliving.org/jax/

[Miss Fixit]

Great news! I'm signed up to help plant.

[strider]

OK, so do we need 75 more trees in the park, a park that hopefully will get redone as it has other issues?  Are we just planting trees to plant trees or for a purpose?  Are there better and more in need places to plant these trees?  Though I would agree that it would be cool if it was part of the remediation.

[Sigma]

Lunican any idea what kind of trees?  Poplar and Willows are bioremediators.

I hope it is a mix with live oaks, maples, and magnolias along with some colorful poplars.  I like willows, but they should be kept a safe distance from concrete, bulkheads, and other foundations imho. Just please - no crape myrtles and palm trees! 

THis is great news though!

[fsujax]

nice. just let hope someone keeps them watered!

[TheProfessor]

Eucalyptus trees anyone?

[jason_contentdg]

nice. just let hope someone keeps them watered!

Yeah, I have to agree.  Hopefully they can be maintained or they'll just end up like many of the other added trees and bushes.

[chris farley]

Strider said
OK, so do we need 75 more trees in the park, a park that hopefully will get redone as it has other issues?  Are we just planting trees to plant trees or for a purpose?  Are there better and more in need places to plant these trees?  Though I would agree that it would be cool if it was part of the remediation.
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Ok Joe you can sit down I am agreeing with you and no one need worry about water.  Trees have not been able to "hold" their ground in this park with the exception of those along the road.  The land right now may be dry but one good rain and it is water logged.  We lost a beautiful large magnolia in the last flood, just keeled over.  I love the idea of trees but lets be careful , especially on the ground just beyond the fountain and the ball field.

 

[Lunican]

Good point Chris. Here are some new trees in the area right after Tropical Storm Fay.

[Sigma]

ohh yeah, and let's not forget some cypress

[KuroiKetsunoHana]

well played, Σ.  well played.

[St. Auggie]

More of a general "Jax tree question", but why arent there more palm trees planted in the Jax area?  I love 'em, and if you travel just a bit further south, even into Palm Coast, they use them much more in landscaping.  Meanwhile we seem to just rotate crate myrtle, live oak and cypress.

[Miss Fixit]

Springfield was loaded with palms at the turn of the 19th/20th century.  Main and Hubbard were lined with rows of palms and there were many specimens in the park and around the Waterworks building. 

It was swampy back then, too - maybe palms would work well there.

[Captain Zissou]

St Aug, you may want to hush that talk.  You'll stir up a wave of anti-palm rants. 

[St. Auggie]

St Aug, you may want to hush that talk.  You'll stir up a wave of anti-palm rants. 

Check, so we are anti-sprawl and anti-palms.  I think we are also anti-chains.  Does this about cover it?