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Tree Tips for March and April

What's Flowering Now? March 5
These trees next to the Friends of Trees downspout basin are drawing a lot of attention right now. (FOT file)

These tree tips, specific for the months of March and April, come courtesy of Collier Arbor Care, a Friends of Trees sponsor:

  • Evaluate trees and prune, removing dead wood and maintaining structure
  • Treat early blooming flowering and fruit trees, like peaches, plums, and cherries for disease problems
  • Treat for leaf blight diseases on dogwood, sycamore and flowering trees
  • Treat diseases on fruit trees like apple scab, brown rot and blossom blight on cherry trees
  • Check trees for leaf-feeding caterpillars and treat if needed
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Mayor Adams plants fruit trees in Sabin

Mayor Sam Adams planted trees last weekend in the Sabin Neighborhood. (Sabin ...)
Rosemarie Cordello, left, with Mayor Sam Adams and Katy Kolker planting a fruit tree last weekend in the Sabin Neighborhood. (Sabin Community Association)

Seven new fruit trees were planted Saturday at the Sabin Neighborhood’s new community orchard.

Mayor Sam Adams, along with Commissioner Amanda Fritz, joined the Portland Fruit Tree Project and other volunteers to plant the fruit trees: pear; asian pear; apple; persimmon; fig; plum; and cherry.

Supported by a grant from the city of Portland’s Neighborhood Small Grants Program, the Sabin Community Orchard is located on Portland Bureau of Transportation land, at Northeast Mason St. between 18th and 19th.

Of course, Mayor Adams, like all area residents, has an open invitation to any Friends of Trees planting. Here is the online planting schedule. Friends of Trees and its Neighborhood Trees program will plant in the Sabin community on March 13.

–Toshio Suzuki