Chestnut Hill Tree Tenders, in connection with Mt. Airy and Germantown Tree Tenders, is soliciting applications for Free Street Trees to be planted in Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy and Germantown in the Spring of 2019. Homeowners can submit an application at phsonline.org or you can pick up a form at the Chestnut Hill Community Association at 8434 Germantown Ave.

After a homeowner submits an application to receive a tree, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) will check the site. If the site meets the PHS criteria for tree placement, the application will be approved, and next April, a volunteer planting crew will come and plant a tree in front of your house. Homeowners are encouraged to help the volunteer crew with the planting. The homeowner is then responsible of taking care of the tree – watering, weeding, mulching.

The trees are free but donations to PHS are encouraged. To donate online, visit phsonline.org/ways-to-give/more-trees-please

Volunteers for Fall Planting Needed

We are looking for volunteers to help with our fall planting on November 17.

Chestnut Hill Tree Tenders will be planting 10 trees, we will meet at 301 East Highland Ave. at 9 a.m. on November 17. For more information, please contact Jean McCoubrey at 215-913-9027 or Monika Hemmers at 215-284- 3772.

East Mt. Airy will be planting 41 trees, meeting at 9 a.m. on November 17 at a place to be determined. To volunteer for this planting effort, please contact Rose Johnson at rlj1311@aol.com.

Germantown will be planting 28 trees, meeting at 9 a.m. on November 17 at a place to be determined. Please contact Mark Smith at mfsmith4@gmail.com