Neighborhood Trees

See our tree-watering story contest winner! Remember to water your trees this summer. Our drilled bucket or ooze tube watering videos provide helpful tips. The chart below shows that Portland's dry summers make watering our trees essential.

During our 2008-09 planting season, Friends of Trees planted 2,684 street and yard trees in 80 neighborhoods - 46% more trees than last year in Portland and 37% more in all parts of the metro area. To meet our goals in Portland's Grey to Green Initiative, we need to plant even more trees next year. If you'd like to help organize a planting in your neighborhood this fall or winter, please join our Neighborhood Coordinator Trainings July 18 and 23.

At the end of the summer, we will schedule plantings in neighborhoods that have neighborhood coordinators. Check our planting calendar to see if we're planting in your neighborhood. Our Neighborhood Trees video shows why you should get involved. To buy a tree for your neighborhood planting, register online by your planting deadline listed on the calendar.

Costs of trees vary depending on the grants Friends of Trees can secure for each neighborhood. We provide street and yard trees at less than half, sometimes less than five percent, of the actual $175 cost. We rely on grants, donations, community support, and members to fill in the gaps. In most cases the homeowner pays even less than Friends of Trees pays the wholesale nursery to buy the trees, but Friends of Trees also plans the planting event and provides tree and mulch delivery, tools, and volunteer recruitment and training.

Visit our YouTube site to watch videos from past plantings. If you live in Portland and want to plant a tree yourself, please note that all street trees must be permitted through Portland Parks & Recreation City Nature-Urban Forestry prior to planting.