They were pleased with our planting of 3 years ago and had some great advice:

1. Trees for Tucson (Doug Koppinger) might be able to find us trees of all kinds of species.
2. Don't plant riparian or other high water use trees in the park, they need to be able to weather droughts.
3. Greg would like to come to one of our neighborhood meetings and talk about tree planting in yards as well as parks. He also volunteered to help us plant the new trees, instead of letting the city do it.
4. We can plant some vines on the unsightly Tucson Water chain link cage, they suggested Mascagnia (deciduous, plant on South facing) or Orange Trumpet. Greg says that TW might be willing to help.
5. We would like to see the trees labeled. TBG hires CE Welding to get stakes with metal plaques (approx $15 ea.). Greg likes the way the signs are done at Saguaro National Park West, very heavy duty laser engraved sheet metal. He says that the State Land Dept gives grants every year to do signage.
6. Other recommended places to get trees: Desert Survivors, and Mesquite Valley.
7. Cecily gave Scott a handout "Great Trees for planting in Tucson".
8. We need to wait till the spring to figure out which Ash trees should be removed, can't tell during the winter.
9. From an aesthetic point of view, we should try to plant trees of the same species in clusters in the park.

Suggested Trees for the park:

• Acacia Gregiae (sp?)
• Netleaf Hackberry - seen in many schoolyards around town, they have berries that the birds like, only downside is they grow irregularly when young.
• Vitec - we planted a couple of these before and they are nice
• Texas Ebony - Alice has one in her yard, stays green all year
• Texas Honey Mesquite - there is a grove of them at University and Second Ave.
• Desert Willow - we planted a couple of these before and have worked out well
• Eucalyptus Kulabai - we planted a couple of these before and have worked out well