By Katie Neis Never has the fall color looked as beautiful as it did from where I sat high above the road in the driver’s seat of a Penske truck. Friends of Trees staff member Susie Peterson and I were on a mission last week to pick up trees for our first neighborhood planting of the [...]
Looking for a CyberMonday deal that takes care of someone special on your gift list and gives back? Today only, Friends of Trees’ Gift Trees are 25% off! Use discount code CYBERTREE to get 25% off an individual Gift Tree or CYBERGROVE to get 25% off a grove of 6 trees. That’s an individual Gift [...]
Tags: Collins Sanctuary, Gift Trees
Friends of Trees wishes a Happy Thanksgiving to all of our awesome volunteers, donors, foundation supporters, agency and neighborhood partners, and corporate sponsors—everyone who has planted trees with us or made it possible for us to plant trees. Don’t miss this Thanksgiving ad in today’s Oregonian! Why does Friends of Trees Executive Director Scott Fogarty plant [...]
Tags: G2G, Green Space Initiative, Plant It Portland, street trees, yard trees
How do trees help cities? Why plant trees in urban areas? This video from the American Society of Landscape Architects and the U.S. Forest Service makes it easy to understand. Great visuals, great facts. Thank you to The Intertwine for bringing this video to our attention! Urban Forests = Cleaner, Cooler Air from ASLA on [...]
Tags: education, street trees
