We are a Cambridge, Wisconsin based non-profit organization offering affordable premium trees and shrubs for your home. All profits help landscape Cambridge and Rockdale schools, streets and parks. There are two ways to buy trees:
- We have a limited number of trees available for immediate purchase, click here for more information.
- Stop over at our first annual spring sale:
- Saturday, May 16th from 11 to 5 (same day and time as the Friends of the Library Plant Sale)
- Sale will be held at 302 North St in Cambridge
Village of Cambridge President Donn Trieloff presents the Tree City USA designation to the Village while recognizing the Cambridge Tree Project's contribution Village forestry. The designation was held on Mill Street where five white flowering crab trees where recently donated by the Project.
99 trees have now been purchased which has enabled us to donate 67 trees and shrubs to our schools, streets and parks. Donated plantings can be seen at the elementary school, Westside Park, and various streets in Cambridge. Our first donation last spring was four Allegheny serviceberries to the school Environmental Club:
Tree Project Mission: Affordable premium trees and shrubs for your home. All profits helping landscape Cambridge and Rockdale schools, streets and parks.
Goals:
Plant 1,000 trees in Cambridge and Rockdale by 2020. Progress, as of April 22nd, 2009: 166 trees planted, 17% of goal.
Increase diversity of species in our community forest. Currently almost 60% of trees in the Village of Cambridge are of two species: ash and maple. While time-honored favorites, such as birch, maple and oak are available through our program, we are proud to offer numerous unique hardy species which will increase much-needed species diversity.
History: Founded 2007 in Cambridge
Who can buy trees? Anyone - regardless of where one lives. Those living outside the villages of Cambridge and Rockdale will need to pick their trees up in Cambridge.
When are the trees available? Trees from our inventory are available for purchase, in limited quantities, now. Additionally, a broad range of trees and shrubs can be ordered any time and are delivered to your door twice annually: in spring and again in late summer. These times correspond with the best times to plant trees in our climate. Our upcoming spring drive ends April 17, 2009.
Photo Gallery of Trees Available for Purchase:
$38 Redbud: planted in the spring of 2006 and pictured June 2008.
$38 Red Buckeye - This tree was only three years old when pictured but was already producing red flowers. It's one of the few trees that consistently flowers in deep shade. Growth is on the slow side and it reaches only 20 feet tall making it an ideal tree for small spaces or patios. Fall color is not impressive but during the summer the leaves look quite nice.
Miscellaneous $38 Trees: - Left to right: chinkapin oak, river birch and red oak.
$38 Hornbeam (Musclewood) Fall Color: Grows in sun or shade to about 15 feet. Smooth gray bark and fast growth when young, well over two feet annually with a good mulch ring and supplemental waterings.
