List of available saplings
The Indiana Dept. of Natural Resources once again provided free trees for anyone who wanted to come pick them up. Last year we picked up some free trees, and have had reasonable success with them.
This year the give a way was organized at the County Fairgrounds. The variety was larger than last year’s offering and I was pleased to see Red Buds on the list. They are so pretty each year!
There was a good sized crowd as soon as it opened
This is one of the two Pecan saplings now planted
This is our Black Cherry from last year. It has grown a lot!
As was the case last year, you could get a maximum of ten trees per household. We decided that this year I’d pick up two Red Buds, two Pecans and one Shag Bark Hickory. All five are now planted, and hopefully they will all survive. We did have a couple of losses last year due to (I think) pesky rabbits. This tree give a way is a great program.
Roadtirement 
What an environmentally terrific idea!
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Yes, a great idea! We were so happy to find out they were doing it again.
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What an excellent idea. I’d be interested in how your trees do – do let us know!
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The Black Cherry in the post is from last year’s plantings. Hope this year’s do as well! 🌳🌲 We’ll update!
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What a great idea! Good Luck with your trees. Your property must be beautiful with all the trees.
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We do have a fairly good size lot and with the trees we got last year plus the five new ones for this year we are beginning to run out of space for new ones but there’s always room for another tree 🌲 🌳
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This is such a good idea guys. One organization replanted a huge swath of dry forest here in this rural region of Panama, after heavy deforestation over the centuries. People are learning; we need nature to survive.
Ryan
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That is a great service that org did. Thanks for sharing.
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Sounds like a cool initiative! 🌱🌳
✨🙏🕉🌱🌿🌳🌻💚🕊☯🐉✨
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We’re glad the State DNR continues this program.
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I am offering a variety of free poet-tree
Which is all it’s worth, as you can see. 😉
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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This is a wonderful initiative. Our local council does this once each year. Hurrah for trees!
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We’re glad more and more towns are doing the offerings in our State.
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About 20 years ago a new freeway was being built about a 1/2 mile from our neighborhood. The county asked if any of us would like up to 4 trees planted along their property’s street side– to help minimize traffic noise. A few weeks later groups of college students came out, dug the holes, and satisfied everyone’s needs. T ended up with 2 magnolias and 2 jacarandas– since I’m on a street corner. And they both flower well.
Art
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Thanks for sharing, I love to hear a story about “progress” that comes out well. Good for you and your neighbors.
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What a great initiative!
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We we so pleased when they announced the give a way again this year. Hopefully it will become a yearly event.
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Hope so!
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we were pleased to see the program again this year. Maybe it will become a yearly event now! (fingers crossed)
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Such a great idea for a state agency to give away trees!
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Occasionally government does do something beneficial! 😉
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Definitely a good idea to get everyone planting. Thanks for sharing. Allan
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Hopefully this program will be able to be continued. There are so many places that could use new saplings!
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Grreat reading your blog post
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