Steve Whysall,
Vancouver Sun
Published: September
26, 2016 Updated: September
27, 2016 3:50 PM
Do
you have room in your garden for another tree? Or perhaps you don’t
have any trees in your garden and you think it’s time to plant
one.
Now’s
the perfect time to do it. And Vancouver Park Board is making it a
whole lot easier by offering residents 3,000 trees at a bargain
price of $10 each as part of the city’s plan to get 150,000 trees
planted by 2020 in a bid to “replenish the urban forest” and make
Vancouver one of the greenest cities in the world.
This
is the third time the city has made this offer. Featuring 27 varieties
of trees, the sale will be held Oct. 1 and 2. Residents
are encouraged to place orders online and then pick up their tree/trees
at the Hillcrest Community Centre, 4575 Clancy Loranger Way Vancouver.
“These
sales are critical to us getting trees into the hands of private
citizens to support our goals of 150,000 new trees planted
in Vancouver by 2020,” says Margo Harper, spokesperson for the park
board
Trees
being offered include this extensive list: Bing cherry, Brown Turkey
and Desert King fig, Carolina allspice, cascara, Combination
apple, Constellation dogwood, Cupid sour cherry, Emperor Japanese maple,
McNair horse chestnut, Gladiator crabapple, hardy orange, Hot Wings
Tatarian maple, Japanese tree lilac, Leyland cypress, Little Woody
redbud, Mayday tree, Pagoda dogwood, Prairie Spire
Green ash, Prairie Torch buckeye, Rainbow’s End spruce, Showy mountain
ash, Showbird hawthorn, Spring Show crabapple, stag horn sumac, Twisty
Baby robinia, vine maple, and Norway spruce.
“We
have had pretty slow uptake on pre-sales compared to spring and last
fall,” says Harper, “but there are some very interesting
and unusual trees for sale at great prices.”
Vancouver
residents can buy up to a maximum of three trees per household. The
trees are worth about $75 each but are not suitable
for balconies or inside the home.
“We are planning for annual spring and fall sales going forward,” says Vancouver park board chair Sarah Kirby-Yung.
“Vancouverites
can play a vital role as planting partners to help us restore our tree
canopy and meet our goals for a healthy urban
forest,” she says.
Residents who have ordered and paid for their trees online can pick them up October 1st or 2nd at Hillcrest Centre.
A limited number of trees will be available for cash purchase on Sunday, October 2 between 2 pm – 4 pm.
Trees
are only available for sale to City of Vancouver residents. ID and
proof of address will be required when picking up trees.
Today, only 18 per cent of Vancouver is covered by tree canopy, a drop from 22 per cent in 1995.
For more information go to Vancouver Fall Tree Sale
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