Project Acorn Tree Requests
Project Acorn Fact Sheet -- information on Jamestown, the tree's environmental benefits, planting tips, watering tips, and a quiz.
Water trees weekly thru Christmas and then start up again when you see buds appear in Spring. Here are some planting tips.
About the Cherrybark Oak
These Jamestown Cherrybark Oaks are intended for planting primarily on private residential properties or school yards. Before you request a tree, make sure you have a suitable location with:
- Moderate to moist soil (not dry areas or areas that cannot be watered by hose, downspout, or rain barrel).
- Room
for it to grow. They eventually grow to over 60-100 feet tall with crowns over 60 feets wide and trunks 3 feet
wide, so you want to avoid planting these under overhead power lines or
too close to your home.
Illustration courtesy of Robert O'Brien Design
They do well with any type of sunlight, but do best in full sun with fertile soil. Trees are in one-gallon containers and are approximately 30 inches tall. For more information on cherrybark oaks (also known as quercus pagoda or quercus falcata var. pagodaefolia), visit http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/trees/quefala.pdf.
Cherrybark Oaks provide cover and nesting sites for birds and mammals. The acorns are an important food source for wildlife including blue jay, woodpeckers, nuthatch, grackle, waterfowl, wild turkey, raccoon, white-tailed deer, and squirrels. The heaviest eaters are the gray squirrel, wild turkey, and blue jay. Acorns of the red oak group are an especially important food source in the winter because those of the white oak group germinate soon after falling and, therefore, are unavailable. [USFS Plant Database]
To Request a Tree
To request a tree (limit one per household/school), email your name, phone number, street address to your neighborhood coordinator listed below.
Tree requests are due to coordinators prior to:
Oct. 25, 2007
Trees will be ready for pickup at coordinator's home soon after:
November 2, 2007
To Sign Up as Neighborhood Coordinator
To participate as the coordinator for your Civic Association, send an email to Alison Davis-Holland from the Maywood Community Association at thriftonhillpark@gmail.com with your name, phone number, street address, and the name of your Civic Association. Coordinators will be responsible for:
- Publicizing the tree giveaway within your civic association with this Project Acorn Tree Giveaway blurb.
- Collecting tree requests with this Sign Up Sheet. To ensure that the trees are sucessfully planted in suitable locations, please do not request a random number of trees without having homes for them.
- Sending in the number of households requesting trees to Alison Davis-Holland at thriftonhillpark@gmail.com by October 25, 2007.
- Serving as a drop-off point for trees, Project Acorn Fact Sheet and Quiz, and planting instructions on Nov.1 and 2, 2007. Neighbors may pickup their trees anytime thereafter.
- Serving as a drop-off point for empty pots by Dec. 3, 2007. Arlington County Parks, Recreation, and Community Resources will pickup pots on Dec. 3 and reuse them for more trees.
Neighbor Coordinators List
Not sure of the name of your civic association? Find your home on the Arlington County Government Map of Civic Associations.
ALCOVA HEIGHTS CITIZENS ASSOCIATION
Karla Hagan hepcats@comcast.net
ARLINGTON FOREST CITIZENS ASSOCIATION
Rick and Sylvia Orli rorli@mitre.org
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION
ARLINGTON RIDGE CIVIC ASSOCIATION
ARLINGTON VIEW CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Patricia Healy patriciahealy@hotmail.com
ARLINGTON'EAST FALLS CHURCH CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Tim Reese timothyareese@gmail.com
ARLINGWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
ASHTON HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Hope O'Keeffe hok@lentigo.net
AURORA HIGHLANDS CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Penny Kriese pckriese@gmail.com
BALLSTON-VIRGINIA SQUARE CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Caryn Ginsberg caryn.f.ginsberg.83@alumni.dartmouth.org
BARCROFT SCHOOL & CIVIC LEAGUE
Alison Willocks alisonwillocks@hotmail.com
BELLEVUE FOREST CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION
Dan Radke Dan.Radke@taylorpta.org
BLUEMONT CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Ramona Femenias ramona.f@worldnet.att.net
BOULEVARD MANOR CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Phil Klingelhofer PKlingelhofer@ceednet.org
BUCKINGHAM COMMUNITY CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Maurice Trujillo aolandscape@gmail.com
CHAIN BRIDGE FOREST CIVIC ASSOCIATION
CHERRY VALLEY NATURE AREA NEIGHBORS' ASSOCIATION
Rob Beckman rbeckman@ix.netcom.com
CHERRYDALE CITIZENS ASSOCIATION
Maureen Ross 703-527-7692
CLAREMONT CITIZENS ASSOCIATION
CLARENDON-COURTHOUSE CIVIC ASSOCIATION
COLUMBIA FOREST CIVIC ASSOCIATION
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION
For Arlington Village Condominium Association, Jill Lewis jrlewis46@aol.com
Coordinator still needed for the rest of Columbia Heights.
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Judith Richter jarichter@juno.com
DOMINION HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION
DONALDSON RUN CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Larry Finch lefinch@verizon.net
DOUGLAS PARK CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Darek Newby
DOVER-CRYSTAL CIVIC ASSOCIATION
EAST BARCROFT ASSOCIATION
FAIRLINGTON CITIZENS ASSOCIATION
FOREST GLEN CIVIC ASSOCIATION
FOREST HILLS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
FOXCROFT HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION
FOXCROFT HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION
GLEBEWOOD CIVIC ASSOCIATION
GLENCARLYN CITIZENS ASSOCIATION
GULF BRANCH CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Chris Nixon lalocavista@gmail.com
HIGHLAND PARK-OVERLEE KNOLLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION
JEFFERSON CIVIC ASSOCIATION
JOHN M. LANGSTON CITIZENS ASSOCIATION
Tracy Greiner tsg915@comcast.net
LEEWAY OVERLEE CIVIC ASSOCIATION
LONG BRANCH CREEK CIVIC ASSOCIATION
LYON PARK CITIZENS ASSOCIATION
Bill Anhut BillAnhut@yahoo.com
LYON VILLAGE CITIZENS ASSOCIATION
MADISON MANOR CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Luella VanNewkirk luellavannewkirk@comcast.net
MAYWOOD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Alison Davis-Holland thriftonhillpark@gmail.com
NAUCK CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Marie Tillander mtilland@mindspring.com
NORTH HIGHLANDS CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION
NORTH ROSSLYN CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Stephanie Benefiel SJBenefiel@aol.com
OLD DOMINION CITIZENS ASSOCIATION
OLD GLEBE CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Helen Duval ducko1@verizon.net
PENROSE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
Laura Coppa lbcoppa@verizon.net
RADNOR/FT.MYER HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Steve Campbell mitska@juno.com
RIVERCREST CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Janet Nuzum janetnuzum@aol.com
ROCK SPRING CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Joan McDermott jdmcderm@aol.com
STAFFORD-ALBEMARLE-GLEBE CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Pete Neal pneal@learner.org
TARA-LEEWAY HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Cindy Shea cjshea@mindspring.com
WAVERLY HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION
WAYCROFT-WOODLAWN CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Jim Mathews jimmathews05@yahoo.com
WESTOVER VILLAGE CIVIC ASSOCIATION
John Marsh wvcapres@yahoo.com
WILLIAMSBURG CIVIC ASSOCIATION
WOODMONT CIVIC ASSOCIATION
YORKTOWN CIVIC ASSOCIATION
A Living Legacy Starts with an Acorn!