Created: Jan 12, 2023 07:53 AM (Updated: Jan 12, 2023 01:53 PM)
Corporation of Hamilton workers Treshun Stephens, left, and Edward Butterfield install new cedar trees in the newly extended Donleigh Park across from the offices of The Royal Gazette on Par-la-Ville Road (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
The number of saplings planted on a “tree farm” in the centre of Hamilton has more than doubled after the plot was extended.
Corporation of Hamilton workers install new cedar trees in the newly extended Donleigh Park. Pictured- Marcus Ming (front) and Steven DeSilva (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
Donleigh Park, on Par-la-Ville Road, has been home to 19 young trees planted by the Corporation of Hamilton.
The park was extended after a property on a neighbouring site was demolished last September.
Let it grow: Corporation of Hamilton workers Marcus Ming, left, Edward Butterfield and Treshun Stephens secure a cedar sapling at Donleigh Park (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
A corporation crew has spent the past few weeks resurfacing the site with topsoil.
Corporation of Hamilton workers install new cedar trees in the newly extended Donleigh Park. Pictured- Marcus Ming (left) and Treshun Stephens(Photograph by Akil Simmons)
This week a further 26 trees — including eight cedars — were planted.
Corporation of Hamilton workers install new cedar trees in the newly extended Donleigh Park. Pictured- Treshun Stephens (left), Edward Butterfield and Steven DeSilva (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
Corporation of Hamilton workers install new cedar trees in the newly extended Donleigh Park. (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
The saplings, which are supported by metal rods and housed in special pots to encourage downward root growth, typically take about three years to mature. They are then transferred to various sidewalk locations throughout the City.
All in a row: more trees have been planted after the park area was extended (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
