How are you recognizing the day? Planting a tree? Pruning and protecting the ones you already have?
Arbor Day is recognized Nationally as the day when individuals and groups are encouraged to plant and care for trees. It’s celebrated in a number of countries and, here in the US, is celebrated on the last Friday in the month of April.
In my yard, I planted 5 Golden Spire Arborvitaes. They’re conifers, evergreen, and will grow 20-30 feet tall! They’re absolutely gorgeous and I’m thrilled to have them, to have been able to plant them and to know that I will will be the one to nurture and watch them for years.
Here in North Carolina, our state Arbor Day is the first Friday following March 15 and our state tree is the Pine.
The first Arbor Day was April 10, 1872 in Nebraska. By the 1920s, every state in the United States had passed public laws stipulating a certain day to be Arbor Day or Arbor and Bird Day observance. These dates were established depending upon climate and suitable planting times.
If you don’t know what to do or don’t have anywhere you can plant a tree, go to ArborDay.org and learn more about how you can help our Planet by contributing trees.
Please let me know what you did special today. Don’t you just love trees!
Thanks to Julius Sterling Morton, a journalist and politician,the man responsible for the first Arbor Day and for seeing that it became a nationally recognized holiday. Morton served as President Grover Cleveland’s Secretary of Agriculture and, throughout his career, worked to improve agricultural techniques throughout the United States.
