Tree Replanting Campaign
Hurricanes Matthew, Oct. 2016, and Florence, Sept. 2018, destructively laid to rest fourteen gloriously aged oaks, and decimated several fruit and flowering trees including a beloved Pomegranate and several Dogwoods. We want them to rise again, just as majestically as the winds that blew them down.
We seek to continue efforts to replant Live Oaks, Red Oaks, Laurel Oaks, Black Walnut, and Sycamore trees. Special thanks to COASTAL PENDER ROTARY for a $6,400 dollar grant to plant over 40 trees and hydrangea and rose bush gardens in November 2021.
Poplar Grove also has one of the oldest Osage Orange trees in southeastern North Carolina. Its estimated height is 50 ft with a 46 ft crown. It has three trunks with a base diameter of approximately 39 inches. There are also several Laurel Oaks in the back stables area that are over 150 years old.
The most recent MUNGO HOMES development on 65 acres of the former Abbey Nature Preserve adjacent to Poplar Grove has exposed the former peanut and sweet potatoes fields but at the loss of 65 acres of woodlands. Continued development in the Scotts Hill area is an opportunity to draw attention to the values of conservation, education and preservation.
So please consider joining our efforts to Restore the Canopies of these majestic trees for the next generation to enjoy.
Together, we can create once again the summer shade provided by the canopies of trees that once reached above these local highways and into the blue crystalline skies of our coastline.
By donating your labor, your pennies, your nickels, your dimes, your seedlings, your suggestions, or your help today will ensure a brighter greener tomorrow for your children and grandchildren, for my children and grandchildren, and for their generations to come.