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Together we can help make Glastonbury a more beautiful, greener place to live.
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GPIP
Receives a $22,400 Grant |
26 large pin oaks, pears, tupelos, maples and other
trees now grace Glastonbury streets thanks to a grant from
the Norma and Natale Sestero Fund at the Hartford Foundation
for Public Giving at was awarded to GPIP, late in 2014.
Most of the grant money was used to dig the 26 trees
from our tree nursery and to hire two local landscape
companies to plant them along the New London Turnpike, in
South Glastonbury and other selected locations around town.
The remaining grant funds will be used to purchase
new trees for the nursery and for more planting next spring.
GPIP is very thankful to the Sestero Fund at the Hartford
Foundation of Public Giving for helping to make Glastonbury
a more attractive and environmentally-friendly Town.
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2 of the 26 trees that were dug up from the Town Tree
Nursery. |
To get the trees established in their new homes, green ‘tree
gator’ bags have been put around the base of their trunks and are
filled with water weekly. |
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Town Tree
Nursery |
In 2003, members of Glastonbury's Community
Beautification Committee identified a need for trees for
Glastonbury Parks and Recreation to use in plantings along
streets and other public places. Working with the Town,
these CBC members spear-headed the formation of Glastonbury
Partners in Planting.
The Town provided agricultural land for GPIP to plant and
raise trees for use by the town. The project bore its first
'fruit' in 2006, when the first trees in the nursery had
grown large enough to be used in Town projects. The nursery
currently has more than 200 trees and about 25% of them are
large enough to be used for street planting. Our goal is to
provide the Town with roughly 20 trees ready for use in Town
projects each year.
- Chairperson: Bob Shipman |
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Trees grown in the Town Tree Nursery:
Hawthorns
Birches
Sugar Maples
Red Sunset Maples
Valley Forge Elms
Ornamental Cherry: Kwanzan, Okame, Sargent
Pear: Capitol and Aristocrat
Pin Oaks
Ash
Purple Leaf Plum
Tulip
Our special thanks to Bob Shipman and the many GPIP
volunteers who help plant 20-30 new young trees in the Tree
Nursery each year. |
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