June Newsletter
Pollinizer Plant Sale
Just in time for summer, we are offering a special pollinizer plant sale! NTC will be selling three perennials noted for attracting pollinators to your garden:

Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
New York Ironweed (Vernonia noveborecensis)
Rough Goldenrod ‘Fireworks’ (Solidago rugosa ‘Fireworks’)


NTC has been growing this Monarch Medley in-house at the Heritage Tree Center. All proceeds will directly support on ongoing work on behalf of Newport's trees. Quantities are limited, don't miss a great opportunity to support our work, and bring home some fantastic new garden additions.
Planting in Ballard Park
In keeping with our commitment to invest the trees produced at the Heritage Tree Center directly back into our community, the Newport Tree Conservancy planted 20 native trees in Ballard Park last week.

With the assistance of our two summer interns, Aislinn Mumford and Cailin Martin, we planted red maple, black willow, and pussy willow into voids of the park canopy created by dead or dying trees, mostly English oak, a species not native to Newport. Many of these newly planted trees were propagated by students from Rogers High School, as part of the Newport Tree Conservancy’s collaboration with the Newport Project, where students learn various methods of propagation and plant production.
Mulching: How Much is too Much?
Mulch rings around trees are good when used sparingly and appropriately. Best practices lead to healthy, vigorous trees that benefit us all. A little mulch is a good thing, so more should be better...Right?

The benefits of mulch around trees can turn detrimental when mulch is mounded against a tree's trunk, or compounded by excess additions year after year.

Trees do not necessarily need mulch additions every year. A thin layer of mulch every 2-3 years provides all the benefits while allowing the layers below to break down naturally.