75 new trees coming to Klutho Park

[Sportmotor]

I loves me some Cherry Blossom trees.

[fsujax]

I love palms...you should see my back yard...queen palms, pindo and washingtonian palm! beautiful

[Charles Hunter]

I think Clay Yarborough may have about 40 palm trees ...

[fsujax]

LOL! i dont have any sabal palms.....

[Sigma]

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

I hear ya.  I'm not anti-palm. I just think that Jacksonville goes way overboard with their use (crape myrtles too).  Jacksonville is not Miami - more like lower Georgia.  And last I looked, palms don't provide much shade.  The further south you go, the more abundant they are because they are tropical.

I'd much rather look at more colorful trees that provide some shade than palms. I enjoy driving down streets with a live oak canopy shading the way. That's all.  Save the palms for the patio by the pool.

[Keith-N-Jax]

I love palms...you should see my back yard...queen palms, pindo and washingtonian palm! beautiful

My yard also.

[Keith-N-Jax]

I don't get the anti palm mentality on here. Jax will never look like Miami no matter how many palms they plant. Miami has royals, coconuts, fox tails and many others that will not survive the winter here. We will never have that tropical look which is ok. If anything crape myrtles are the one tree that over used up here way too much. Some bottle brush trees would look nice especially in bloom. I believe river birch and bald cypress can survive flooding.

[Sigma]

^ I concur - and I really like the river birch as well.

[chris farley]

Miss Fixit there were not Palms in those parks at the end of the 19th century, Cypruss ponds.  the parks were filled until  c 1905/6.  In the Streets yes

[Keith-N-Jax]

Those are some nice shots. Palms are majestic.

[Livein32206]

I'm not sure if we really have much say in just what free trees CSX is going to plant. However, it would be nice to have trees that are native to the area.

[thelakelander]

Any idea of where the trees will be planted within the park and could planting location be coordinated to form and shape certain types of spaces?

[fsujax]

Stepehen, thanks for posting the pics. Those Washingtonian Palms in the top picture look great! Henry Flagler loved his palms as well. He planted them all around the historic Jacksonville Terminal.

[TheProfessor]

I think the Washington palms look good there, especially when they are mature.

[nvrenuf]

Any idea of where the trees will be planted within the park and could planting location be coordinated to form and shape certain types of spaces?

I sent an email to Pamela Ilnicki at CSX yesterday asking several questions about the trees, pending response. She is listed as the coordinator for the volunteer planting effort. If she doesn't have the answers, hopefully she will forward to someone who does.