Neighborhood Trees

During the 2007-08 planting season, more than 2,000 volunteers planted 1,852 street and yard trees in 62 Portland and Vancouver neighborhoods. Please visit our planting schedule to see if we're planting in your neighborhood this year. We schedule all our plantings between November and April and set our planting schedule by late summer. To buy a tree for your neighborhood planting, tell us about your interest through our online tree order form by the deadline on the planting schedule. Friends of Trees only schedules plantings in neighborhoods with neighborhood coordinators. If you'd like to organize a planting in your neighborhood, please attend our summer Neighborhood Coordinator Training.

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, 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 we also provide staff time to plan the event, trucks and gas for tree and mulch delivery, tools, and volunteer recruitment and training.

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.