Your trees may soon be accessorized. Nancy Merrill (the driving force behind hundreds of parking strip trees throughout Wallingford) writes:
IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD STEET TREE PLANTING PROJECT
presents Art Installation:
SUMMER IN THE CITY, 2012
To celebrate the urban curbside forest created by successive tree plantings 1991-2011 (by permit: Right Tree/Right Place with trees provided by Seattle City Light, Department of Neighborhoods, Department of Transportation, donations), selected project street trees will receive “tree necklaces” crafted by local tree stewards of all ages. These wooden plaques are hand-painted on repurposed plywood with designs depicting individual tree leaf shapes and characteristics, and are hung with care using biodegradable clothesline. Tree varieties are noted on the reverse, Latin and common names. Learn them all! Create an urban forest game while leaving the art installation components on the trees! Seattle City Light has sanctioned this project and each necklace plaque bears a SCL approval sticker. Brought to you by SDOT Volunteer
Tree Steward Nancy Merrill and friends, summer of 2012.
Hooray! Is she the Nancy M. of Wallyhood?
They’re gorgeous! Is there a way we could sign up, hoping to get one?
@ Janey, Nancy Merrill forwarded this to us:
Greetings from SDOT Volunteer Tree Steward Nancy Merrill:
Please send along your address (and e-mail if you wish) to Wallyhood ([email protected]) in confidence and Merrill will make the best effort to adorn your tree with a tree necklace this summer. Planting strip trees planted by the It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Tree Planting Project (1991-2011)
get first priority but we will do our best to celebrate all the trees in our leafy urban forest! Tree Cheers!
@Michael, Nancy isn’t affiliated with Wallyhood, per se, but she is known around the neighborhood as the Lorax and we’ve written posts about her before.
I love this project! I was one of the neighborhood tree planters and have enjoyed watching the trees grow up and thrive. I hope the upper end of Thackeray also gets adorned with necklaces!
I am happy to hear good words about this project. Janey and Claudia (and Wallingford residents who have a planting strip tree or trees from the It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Tree Planting Project) please send me via [email protected] your name and e-mail; I will contact you for the address of the tree, type of tree if you know it, and permission of the property owner. Then wait and see! This project is intended to go on for a long time. The first batch are installed near the corner of 43rd and Thackeray and the 4200 block of Thackeray: Japanese Snowbell, Dogwood, Thundercloud Plums, Zelcovas, Katsura, Holly Oak . . .there will be a test . . .. kidding : )