Friends of Trees is Now Accepting Tree Orders for 21 N-NE Portland Neighborhoods

You can order trees now for North and Northeast Portland neighborhoods where Friends of Trees is organizing community tree plantings. To order street or yard trees, homeowners just need to create an online account at "Order Street & Yard Trees" at www.FriendsofTrees.org. The online account should be created by the following dates to allow time for the permitting process required before trees can be purchased:

Dec. 1 deadline for the Jan. 31 planting in Arbor Lodge and Overlook

Dec. 8 deadline for the Feb. 7 planting in Cathedral Park, Kenton, Portsmouth and St. Johns

Dec. 15 deadline for the Feb. 14 planting in Boise, Eliot, Humboldt, King and Piedmont

Dec 15 deadline for the Feb. 21 planting in Alameda, and Irvington

Dec 22 deadline for the Feb. 28 planting in Concordia, Vernon and Woodlawn

Dec 22 deadline for the Feb. 28 planting in Argay and Parkrose

Jan. 5 deadline for the March 7 planting in Cully, Madison South and Rose City Park

If you have questions as you place your order, please contact your neighborhood coordinator listed on Friends of Trees' web site calendar at "Plant with Us."

To fulfill our mission of building community and increasing tree canopy, Friends of Trees provides trees to homeowners at less than half—sometimes less than five percent—of the actual $175 cost. Most homeowners pay even less than Friends of Trees pays the wholesale nursery to buy the trees, and we also need to cover the cost of staff, insurance, trucks and gas, tools, volunteer recruitment, and training. To fill in the gaps, Friends of Trees relies on grants and donations.

Friends of Trees brings people in the Portland-Vancouver area together to plant and care for city trees and urban natural areas. Each year Portland's trees remove millions of pounds of pollutants from the air and keep half a billion gallons of stormwater from polluting our rivers, according to a city of Portland Parks & Recreation City Nature-Urban Forestry study. Since our founding in 1989, Friends of Trees' volunteers have planted hundreds of thousands of trees in the Portland-Vancouver metro area to increase our beneficial tree cover. To learn more, visit www.FriendsofTrees.org.