ARBOR DAY $12 donation and survey for 12 free trees including crabapples, hawthorne, and Dogwood trees

[The Barber]

I went ahead and made my donation.

Here's what I get in Kentucky.
Receive 2 Flowering Crabapples, 3 Eastern Redbuds, 2 Washington Hawthorns, 3 White Flowering Dogwoods, and 2 Crapemyrtles.

 

[Desert O'Piñon]

I think that is an excellent idea.

3 of my 5 are not very heat tolerant. I'm starting to wonder how much Arbor Day Foundation knows about trees and geographic climate.

Here's what I get in Kentucky.
Receive 2 Flowering Crabapples, 3 Eastern Redbuds, 2 Washington Hawthorns, 3 White Flowering Dogwoods, and 2 Crapemyrtles.

Funny that you, in your lush, green climate, will get the exact same trees as I would get here in the desert. Crepe myrtle grows everywhere around here, and I see a few redbuds (I think the city planted a special variety), but I don't know if I could successfully grow the other three, especially the dogwoods.

 

[Wulfskaar]

3 of my 5 are not very heat tolerant. I'm starting to wonder how much Arbor Day Foundation knows about trees and geographic climate.

Yeah, I was wondering that too. I was not surprised by the crape myrtles, because we have them all over out here. I was surprised they offered me the bald cypress. While my one BC seems to do great here, I don't know that I've seen any planted in the ground.

I kind of figured they would offer me oaks or something.

 

[Desert O'Piñon]

I kind of figured they would offer me oaks or something.

Funniest thing is that one of the survey questions was "Do you think the Piñon is a good choice for the state tree of New Mexico?" Also: "Do you think New Mexico has done a good job of forest preservation?"
So they know what kind of trees grow here, and that we do, in fact, have forest in our desert state.
I thought they might have offered Rocky Mountain Juniper, Piñon, Desert Willow, or something along those lines.
Nope.

 

[Kievnstavick]

It is interesting that I received a direct letter (and misplaced it soon after word) for a survey with an access code a month or two ago. I wasn't able to perform the survey online without the code.

After seeing this post, I tried again and I didn't need a code this time. I wonder if they just had a lack of participation beforehand so they opened it up to the public.

I donated and will be receiving my trees in the spring.

 

[Zac]

I did my survey and made my donation. I received it in the mail awhile back. The one through mail you get some extra extras if return in timely manner. Like a calendar and coffee. But it was a $20 donation.

 

[NMbonsai]

I did this about 5 years ago. Yes, it is a good cause, but don't get your hopes up about the trees you will receive. They send you a prechosen variety of plants: dogwood, crab apples, crape myrtles, as others have mentioned. There were no conifers in the mix at that time. Not much that would survive in my local environment. What they send are not even sticks in pots, just bare rooted twigs. I think I had one crab apple that survived a year and then died.