Celebrate Presidents' Day in the U.S. by planting a tree symbolic of a past President. Too cold to plant in your area? Choose a special tree and its planting location.
What could be more fun than planting a tree to commemorate special U.S. Presidents? The Historic Tree Nursery propagates cuttings and seedlings from historic trees that witnessed the lives and events that shaped our country's history and offers them for sale. This site also offers:
- Tree Care Tips
- Trees and the Environment Information, and
- A Register of National Historic Trees.
Here are specific plants from The Historic Tree Nursery that ommemorate the lives of the two presidents that Presidents Day celebrates:
President George Washington
- River Farm Chaste Tree (Vitex species)
- River Farm Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera)
- River Farm Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
- Mount Vernon White Ash (Fraxinus americana)
- George Washington Tulip Poplar(Liriodendron tulipifera)
and President Abraham Lincoln
