Project Canopy
Project Canopy is the club’s ambitious new initiative to plant native and flowering trees at all the public schools and green spaces in the City of Coral Gables. This project encourages our youth and residents to be stewards of the earth and good gardeners, tending and watering their young trees. Trees and plants that encourage our native wildlife and pollinators to visit are a focus for the 2021-2022 year.
Coral Gables High School was our last school of the 2020-2021 school year to gift native trees.
Principal Ullivarri and the PTA chose native Mahogany trees, which grace the east side of their athletic fields.
Our tree plantings continue at George Washington Carver Middle School.
G.W. Carver Middle School was the recipient of a native and pollinator garden on Saturday, January 16th, 2021.
Treemendous Miami’s crew of ten volunteers planted a beautiful native and pollinator garden in honor of Sallye Jude for Project Canopy. Native pines, saw palmetto, wild coffee, red and white stoppers, Simpson stoppers, pigeon plum, gumbo limbo, firebush, black ironwood are just a few of many plants and trees planted on the S.W. corner of G.W. Carver's campus.
It was an impressive effort and the garden is lovely. It will be used to educate the students on the benefits of using native plants and especially those which aid pollinators. Many thanks go to Steve Pearson for organizing this on our behalf!
On Dec. 4th, 2020, we planted trees at Ponce De Leon Middle School and Henry S. West Lab K-8.
Early Friday morning, three large, beautiful Live Oak trees were delivered to Ponce De Leon Middle School, as Principal Herb Penton greeted our members and the truck carrying the trees. Bordering the school’s basketball courts, the installation was seamless thanks to Abel and his assistant Nelson. How heartwarming it was to receive thanks from attending students and staff.
Henry S. West Lab K-8 was next. We were enthusiastically greeted by members of the school’s PTO, Ana Azpúrua Knoll, Maria Martínez, Principal Barbara Pujades-Soto, the teachers, and charming little students of two kindergarten classes. They all were delighted with their new Cassia Bakeriana trees, and the children especially loved watching the big truck and auger digging the three large holes. We were impressed with how the teachers embraced this planting as an important and fun learning experience for their small charges.
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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
– Chinese proverb
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In honor of...
Sallye Garrigan Jude
The Coral Gables Garden Club members voted unanimously to dedicate “Project Canopy” to our dear Life Member, Sallye Jude.
The City of Coral Gables honored the Coral Gables Garden Club and Sallye Jude for her environmental work by proclaiming September 22nd, 2020, Project Canopy Day.
Sallye, who joined the garden club in 1983, has a long history of promoting environmental causes in South Florida. Sallye is a member of the Sierra Club, a Fellow at Fairchild Botanic Garden, a past Board member of the Fern and Exotic Plant Society, the South Florida Palm Society, and the Tropical Flowering Tree Society. Plus, she has been a major supporter of the Royal Poinciana Fiesta for many years, which celebrates our magnificent Royal Poinciana tree. Her love and interest in trees are well known throughout the South Florida and Coral Gables communities.
It is with the deepest admiration that this project is dedicated to her.
She is our “Johnny Appleseed!”
