Plantings

Trees Now Growing in the Archive and Upcoming Plantings.

Plantings in the 2019-20 Fall-Winter planting season.

First Planting: September 28, 2019 — Cub Scout Pack #120; A to Z Pharmacy; a Cary Town Council candidate and two Morrisville Town Council candidates (all three were elected!) — (14 trees planted)

Second Planting: November 8, 2019 — Dude Solutions, Inc. — (15 trees planted)

Third Planting: January 11, 2020 — Hatkar Family — (1 tree planted)

Fourth Planting: February 23, 2020 — Sant Nirankari Mission — (4 trees planted)

Fifth Planting: February 29, 2020 — Gamers Nexus & Friends — (14 trees)

Sixth Planting: March 5, 2020 — Dick and Gina Wilson — (1 tree)

Seventh Planting: March 13, 2020 — Cary Woman's Club — (4 trees)

Eighth Planting: March 20 to 31, 2020 — Administrators and Leaf & Limb — (4 trees)

Ninth Planting: May 1, 2020 — Dave Klemp, George McDowell, & Bill Rearick — (2 trees)

Tenth Planting: June 14, 2020 — Dave Klemp — (6 trees)

Eleventh Planting: June 17, 2020 — Earl Ijames and George McDowell — (4 trees)

Twelfth Planting: June 22, 2020 — Dave Klemp — (6 trees)

Frederick Law Olmsted, painted by John Singer Sargent at the Biltmore Estate in 1895. {Click to enlarge}

Plantings in the 2020-21 Fall-Winter planting season.

Thirteenth Planting: September 19, 2020 — Dave Klemp, Trees for the Triangle Volunteers, and George McDowell — (2 trees)

Fourteenth Planting: October 10, 2020. — Trees donated by Met Life, Inc. planted by volunteers — (29 trees)

Fifteenth Planting: October 18, 2020 — Toward Zero Waste — (2 trees and 2 bushes)

Sixteenth Planting: October 26, 2020 — Cub Scout Pack #120 (11 trees)

Seventeenth Planting: October 31, 2020 — Mary Ann & Nick Borisow — (2 trees)

Eighteenth Planting: October 31, 2020 — North Carolina political candidates Karen Carter (candidate for Wake County Public School System Board); Jean-Luc Duvall (candidate for Wake County Soil & Water Conservation District Supervisor) — and Travis Groo, candidate for NC Senate District 17 — (3 trees)

Nineteenth Planting: November 6, 2020 — Marina & Chris — (1 tree)

Twentieth Planting: November 14, 2020 — ScenicNC — (7 trees)

Twenty-first Planting: November 22, 2020 — Cub Scout Pack #120; Trees for the Triangle volunteers; NC State Sierra Club chapter; Lois Nixon; Jean-Luc Duvall; Randy Wasserstrom; Hwa Huang; George McDowell — (10 trees)

Twenty-second planting March 20, 2021 — Girl Scouts — (6 trees)

Twenty-third planting April 3, 2021 — Girl Scouts — (3 trees)

Twenty-fourth planting April 11, 2021 — TreesDurham; Katie Rose Levin and Don Addu — (1 tree)

Twenty-fifth planting April 17, 2021 — Cary-Page Rotary Club — (4 trees)

Twenty-sixth planting April 18, 2021 — Eagle Scout Project — (10 trees)

Twenty-seventh planting April 22, 2021 [Earth Day] — Sigma Rho Zeta Chapter [Cary] of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. — (5 trees)

Plantings in the 2021-22 Fall-Winter planting season.

Final Initial Plantings — Saturday, September 25, 2021

9:30 am — Climate Reality Project – Durham Chapter — (2 trees)

9:30 am — Liz Johnson – candidate for mayor of Morrisville — (2 trees)

9:30 am — Sathya Sai Center of Raleigh — (2 trees)

10:00 am — Sierra Club Capital Group — (4 trees)

10:00 am — Sterling Pharma Solutions — (4 trees)

10:30 am — Cary American Legion Post 67 — (2 trees)

11:00 am — Cary VFW Post 7383 — (2 trees)

11:30 am — Jim Semmes – candidate for Morrisville Council — (2 trees)

Noon — Cary Fire Department — (2 trees)

12:30 pm — Town of Apex Council and Sustainability Manager — (2 trees)

12:30 pm — Cary Police Department — (2 trees)

1:00 pm — Town of Cary Council — (7 trees)

Plantings in the 2022-23 Fall-Winter planting season.

Fortieth planting August 13, 2022 — Girl Scout Troop 4657 — (1 tree)

Forty-first planting April 16, 2023 — Sterling Pharma and OneTreePlanted volunteers — (6 trees)

Plantings in the 2023-24 Fall-Winter planting season.

Forty-second planting October 7, 2023 — Cary Candidates for Council — (6 trees)

Forty-third planting October 28, 2023 — BASF and Boy Scouts — (6 trees and Pollinator Garden extension)

Forty-fourth planting November 10, 2023 — Sterling Pharma; (20 plants in the Rockery)

Forty-fifth planting November 16, 2023 — League of Conservation Voters volunteers (12 trees)

Forty-sixth planting January 18, 2024 — Raleigh Hospital volunteers (5 trees)

Forty-seventh planting March 2, 2024 — 9 volunteers [Li family] (2 trees)

Forty-eighth planting March 30, 2024 — Dave Klemp's volunteers (?? trees)

Forty-ninth eventApril 2, 2024 — Innatrix volunteers Rockery II build

Fiftieth planting April 12, 2024 — 40 volunteers (8 trees) and Rockery II build

Fifty-first planting April 18, 2024 — 2 volunteers for Rockery II planting

Plantings in the 2024-25 Fall-Winter planting season.

Fifty-second planting October 24, 2024 — 10 volunteers from MetLife and Dell Technologies planted eight oak trees to replace trees that had died.

"Every tree planted is a compact between generations."
~George H. W. Bush

Day One! Three generations work together on each tree to plant three of the first Bald cypress to go in the Archive.