Arborists Complete Tree Trimming With Help From QVNA

A very special Thank You to Queen Village Neighbors Association (IG: @qvnaorg) for awarding Spring and Fall 2023 Community Grants to the Friends of Jefferson Square!

The combined $3,900 grant totals covered partial costs for two days of work towards tending to our historic trees, with FoJSP contributing $1,000 to the effort. Crew 7 at Liberty Tree & Landscape Management (IG: @libertytree_landscapemgmt) added a third day pro-bono. Work included culling out dead wood, taking weight off of heavy limbs at risk of tearing or falling, and improving pedestrian safety.

While Liberty was doing their work, one of our volunteers with Friends of Jefferson Square Park spent those three days doing winter pruning, general landscaping, and removing Spotted Lanternfly eggs.

Thank you again for the Spring and Fall 2023 QVNA Community Grant Program for this wonderful opportunity for us to keep our park green and healthy! And a special thank you for the team at Liberty Tree and Landscape Maintenance for getting us off on a great start to 2024!

And thank you to everyone who volunteers to help us maintain the park! Want to help out? Come and join us on the second Saturday of each month (starting up in March) with park clean-up and general maintenance.

Keeping the Trees Nice and Trim(ed)

Tree triming in the park
Tree triming in the park

As a result of generous contributions from neighbors and friends in the community, Friends of Jefferson Square Park were able to have Bartlett Tree Experts out to the park for two days of needed tree maintenance and preventative care on our historic park trees.  Work was conducted on Thursday, January 14, and Friday, January 15, 2020. 
On the first day, a bucket truck was brought out to reach some of the largest dead branches and safely remove them.  This allowed the arborists access to hard-to-reach areas of the trees.  On the second day, the arborist crew spent the day directly in the trees with safety harnesses to cut out dead material, lighten heavy limbs, and install flexible steel cables, to limit movement and reduce the risk of limb failure.  During their two days in the park, the Bartlett crew attended to two Horse Chestnuts, a large American Elm, six London Planes, a Red Maple, three Siberian Elms, and a Cherry.  Priorities for this work were addressing the long-term health of our historic trees, structural pruning, and safety.  During these activities, members of the Friends of Jefferson Square Park worked to spot and remove clusters of invasive Spotted Lanternfly eggs from the park trees.
Bartlett’s experienced arborists did a great job, and we look forward to working with them in the future to keep our trees healthy and extend their lives for everyone’s enjoyment in the park.

Many many thanks go out to everyone who contributed to this effort!