Description
Celebrate Maine’s birthday by investing in our shared future and memory by planting a tree for your family to enjoy today, and our descendants to enjoy tomorrow.
Choose from two historic Maine trees: the American Elm or Paper Birch.
The American Elm tree, one of the “Grandest of American Trees,” once lined the streets in many New England towns, including Kennebunk – this tree is even featured on Kennebunk’s Town Seal. By the mid-20th Century, American Elms were mostly killed off by Dutch Elm Disease, and cut down. Luckily, this kit includes a disease-resistant elm tree that will grow for the next 200 years. This tree can grow up to 140 feet high with an 8 foot trunk diameter.
The Paper Birch, famous for its silvery-white peeling bark and fluttering leaves, has been used by Maine peoples for thousands of years in canoe-making, basketry, and more. Birches are considered some of the heartiest northern trees, withstanding extreme cold and wind. This tree can grow up to 70 feet high with a 2 foot trunk diameter.
Each Kit comes with:
Peat pot
Soil pellet
Tree seeds*
Mini-32 page book about the tree
*Seeds are guaranteed by our supplier to grow successfully, or your will receive complimentary replacement seeds.
Benefits of planting a tree:
– Two mature trees provide enough oxygen for a family of four.
– Trees absorb carbon. All of the trees in the U.S. absorb roughly 230 million metric tons of carbon per year.
– Trees cool the air and ground around them, and attract life.
– Trees are great noise barriers!
– Trees are the longest-living and largest living organisms on Earth!
– Studies show people are healthier when trees surround homes and workplaces
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