Several years ago, 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 GPIP. The Town has donated agricultural land for GPIP to plant and raise trees for use by the town. GPIP started planting in 2003. The nursery currently has over 150 tress. The project will bear its first 'fruit' in 2006, when the first trees in the nursery have grown large enough to be used in Town projects.

Fall, 2006
This Spring, GPIP members planted fifteen new trees in the Town Tree Nursery, where they will grow for three or four years. Three Valley Forge Elms that had reached street-tree size were dug from the Nursery. The Park Department planted these trees along Main Street, north of Glastonbury center.

An inventory of the nursery this Fall shows twennty-nine trees large enough to be dug and used as street trees. The Town Tree Warden and the Community Beautification Committee are selecting sites for planting this Fall and next Spring. This is expected to be accomplished by early October, at which time we will know how many of the twenty-nine trees will be used this year.

November, 2005
This has been an active year for the Town Nursery. In the spring GPIP planted 70 new trees (including fifteen new Valley Forge Elms). We now have twenty different varieties of trees growing in the nursery. GPIP partnered with Glastonbury Parks and Recreation to plant two Elms from the nursery on Elm Tree Road on Arbor day. Volunteers have dug four trees (three Elms and a Cherry) in anticipation of planting on Main Street in South Glastonbury in coming weeks.

This winter GPIP will order eighteen new small trees for planting in the Nursery next spring: five Sugar Maples (Acer sacchrum), five Red Maples ("swamp maple" - Acer rubrum), five Elms (Ulmus americana New Harmony), and three Sweet Gum (Liquidambar styraciflua). Our goal is to provide the Town with roughly twenty trees ready for use in Town projects each year.

April 29, 2005
On Arbor Day GPIP volunteers met on Elm Tree Road to plant two Valley Forge Elms. These Elms are among the first trees from the Tree Nursery to be planted out in town. Read more and see pictures of the planting...

April 16, 2005
Eleven GPIP volunteers gathered at the Town Tree Nursery to plant fifty five new bare-root trees. The trees arrived by truck in March and have been heeled in in the bark pile at a local nursery until the Town Nursery land dried enough for planting. More information and photos...

April 9, 2004
On Friday April 9th, ten members of Partners in Planting met at the Town tree nursery to plant sixty five newly arrived trees. The trees came bare-root, packed in boxes from a wholesale nursery. Included were Kwanzan, Okame and Sargent ornamental Cherries, Capitol and Aristocrat flowering Pears, Sugar Maples, Soft "Red Sunset" Maples, Pin Oaks, Ash, Purple Leaf Plum, and Tulip trees...

April 25, 2003
Initial tilling and plating of the Town Tree Nursery. Many of these trees did not survive; they were shipped too early and exposed to extreme cold while en route.