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Greenwich Tree Conservancy
2025 Tree Party
Friday April 25th
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McArdle's Greehouse
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Get
Groovy in the Grove with the Greenwich Tree Conservancy!
Join us for a fun night of cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in
support of our mission to preserve and enhance the tree and
forest resources of Greenwich to benefit the community, its
health, and its quality of life.
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https://ansg.org/event/an-evening-of-music-art-in-the-gardens-2025/
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In 1938, a
short-lived organization that culminated 11 years of active
service in the care and supervision of Greenwich trees
ended. The name of the organization was the Greenwich Tree
Association and it was founded in 1927 when there were only
two garden clubs and no full-time tree warden. Its mandate
was to develop a public interest in the trees of Greenwich.
Their first meeting included representatives from the
following clubs: the Riverside Garden Club, Riverside Civic
Club, Greenwich College Club, Woman’s Club of Greenwich,
Travel Club, League of Women Voters and the Sound Beach
Garden Club (with the Greenwich Garden Club expressing
interest and cooperation). The members adopted a
constitution that set forth: to cooperate with agencies of
the town, county and state in preserving roadside trees; to
arouse the interest of the citizens of Greenwich in the care
of existing trees and in further planting; and to undertake
practical work to further the first two initiatives and
adopt a forward looking policy in the interest of parks and
playgrounds.
One particular address given by Mrs. Hugh F. Fox, president
of the Greenwich Tree Association, resonates equally today
as it did over 80 years ago. “We know that no cure can be
effected until there is a diagnosis of the disease. In
Greenwich we have conditions similar to those existing all
over the State. We have a hundred and sixty miles of roads,
many of them bordered by priceless trees, with their
declared enemies at every turn. We have the fiendish Road
Commissioner with his passion for taking the curves out of
the road. We have the speed hound clamoring for the removal
of everything that obstructs his favorite view – the plain
flat road-bed. Gas and watermains(sic) are destroying our
trees underground and telephone light and power companies
take the place of the combat airplane overhead. Our
legitimate enemies are always with us in the form of bugs
and worms and germs. How are we to combat all these
enemies?”
Over the next decade, the list of accomplishments by the
Greenwich Tree Association included: beautifying a spot at
the Greenwich Railroad Station, feeding the elm trees on
both sides of the Post Road from Deerfield Drive to Put’s
Hill, planting trees near the local schools and at the foot
of Byram Hill near the Thomas Lyon homestead, cooperating
with the Connecticut tercentenary garden project in the
planting at Round Hill Bridge over the Merritt Parkway, and
the showdown of trying to save the trees along Greenwich
Avenue. Ultimately, the Greenwich Tree Association lost the
fight to save the trees along Greenwich Avenue due to its
widening but they did prevail in the first appropriation by
the Town of Greenwich (1929) of $1,500 for the planting of
trees that would be suitable for the designated location and
soil.”
—Anne H. Young |
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