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The First New Trees Arrive on Gov­er­nors Island

Apr 23, 2013 11:50 am
[cap­tion id=“attachment_6681” align=“aligncenter” width=“608”]New Trees for Governors Island - Image Courtesy of West 8 New Trees for Gov­er­nors Island — Image Cour­tesy of West 8[/caption] The first of what will even­tu­al­ly be 1,500 new trees in the new park and pub­lic spaces arrived on Gov­er­nors Island last week. For now they’re pot­ted up in ​“Lib­er­ty Vil­lage”, along the But­ter­milk Chan­nel, but even­tu­al­ly they’ll find new homes in Ham­mock Grove, Liggett Ter­race, the Play Lawn, and even at Sois­sions Land­ing where we’re cre­at­ing a new green wel­com­ing area. [cap­tion id=“attachment_6704” align=“aligncenter” width=“300”]g 2013-04-19 first bare root trees up close Bare root trees will live in pots while they accli­mate to the Island.[/caption]

Ham­mock Grove in par­tic­u­lar will fea­ture a mix of native and local­ly-adapt­ed species includ­ing oaks, sas­safras and mag­no­lia. The new plant­i­ngs for Phase One of the park and pub­lic spaces (cur­rent­ly under con­struc­tion) are detailed here.

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