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[0:13] » Hello, my name's Richard Jones. I'm the
Village Arborist with the Village of
[0:17] North Chevy Chase in Maryland. So today
the Village is having its joint Arbor
[0:22] [music] Day Earth Day celebration. This
involves some tabling and native plant
[0:26] sale and Arbor Day celebration.
It builds a sense of community. You
[0:31] know, this is their Village and that's
that's an important thing to have when
[0:35] you start looking at, well, what can we
do to beautify and maintain it and be
[0:40] good neighbors [music] with one another.
I'll be giving a tree tour a little
[0:43] later during the event. We're going
[music] to walk in the Village and I'm
[0:46] going to point out some of the different
species that we have here in the Village
[0:50] and different tree facts [music] and you
know, answer questions as they come up.
[0:54] We have some fairly forgiving trees in
our area. You know, my personal favorite
[0:59] [music] is the Eastern Redbud.
It is a relatively small, well-behaved
[1:04] tree, beautiful [music] blooms, attracts
a lot of pollinators, and relatively
[1:10] forgiving of the [music] soil conditions
it's in. So, you know, a lot of times
[1:13] people will say, "Oh, I'm just going to
plant a tree [music] here in the grass.
[1:17] Oh, why isn't it doing well?" Well,
there's soil to consider, there's you
[1:21] have the turf grass. So starting with
something like [music] that is is a
[1:24] great idea. But really any sort of
native plant, tree, shrub that's
[1:30] accustomed to [music] our local
ecosystem is fantastic for that. The
[1:35] native plants have
evolved in this local ecosystem, which
[1:40] means that they're accustomed to the
different pests in the area. They are
[1:43] accustomed to the changes in weather,
the amount of rainfall.
[1:48] And so really starting off with that can
be a great way to succeed when you're
[1:53] trying to plant a bunch of plants. There
is a lot of discussion on, you know,
[1:57] what counts as native. Um, I [music]
always recommend looking in your very
[2:01] specific area and not worry about just,
oh, well, what's native in the state
[2:05] because the state of Maryland has many
different little ecosystems in it. A big
[2:10] issue in our area is canopy cover. Uh,
canopy cover can reduce uh, ambient
[2:16] temperatures, it can uh, intercept
rainfall, and these are all very
[2:21] important things in this [music] built
environment that we live in. Uh, so
[2:25] something as simple as planting or
watering a tree can be great. [music]
[2:29] Uh, we always want to make sure we're
maintaining what we plant. This is an
[2:32] annual event. Uh, this is the fifth year
that the village has been designated as
[2:38] [music] a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day
Foundation. Uh, this is a program that's
[2:43] gone back about 50 years uh, that
involves [music]
[2:46] having an Arbor Day celebration, that
involves uh, having a certain amount of
[2:50] your municipality's budget dedicated to
tree care, and having uh, people in your
[2:54] community who are both interested in
planting and maintaining trees. Uh, the
[2:59] first Arbor Day was [music] over 150
years ago, and this is a continuation of
[3:03] that.
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