Planting in Ballard Park

June 9, 2020

In an effort to invest the trees produced at the Heritage Tree Center directly back into our community, the Newport Tree Conservancy planted 20 native trees in Ballard Park last week. With the assistance of our two summer interns Aislinn Mumford and Cailin Martin, we planted red maple, black willow, and pussy willow into voids of the park canopy created by dead or dying trees, most of which were English oak, a species not native to Newport. Many of these newly planted trees were propagated by students from Rogers High School, as part of the Newport Tree Conservancy’s collaboration with the Newport Project, where students learn various methods of propagation or plant production.