City Arborist Tom Hoerth accepted the award at the state’s annual Arbor Day event May 20 in Auburn.
At Arbor Day events in Bath, The Bath Community Forestry Committee presented its annual landscape awards to Mary Condo- Derosa and Lee DeRosa of 65 Green St., for the residential award; and to the owners and tenants of the Sedgwick Professional Building at 765 High St., for the business award.
The awards acknowledge exemplary design, selection of plantings and hard work contribuing to the attractiveness of the properties and their part in the urban forest and visual appeal of the city of Bath, the city said in a news release.
The Derosas have more than 50 trees on their property, including a sugar maple that is over 100 years old.
Hoerth said the tree was in fine condition and should live a number of more years. Forty-two of the trees, including yellow cypress, weeping Canadian hemlock, white kousa dogwood, miniature red Japanese maple, and river birch were planted in 2009 throughout the property. The gardens were designed using unusual trees with a variety of foliage and shape to be enjoyed all year around, Lee Derosa said.
The Sedgwick Professional Building — located at one of Bath’s busiest intersections at High, Centre and Court streets — is adjacent to the city’s Civil War Soldiers’ Monument.
“We are honored to receive this award, and especially thank Mark Jorgensen for his excellent care of the property,” said Margaret Lonsdale, spokesperson and tenant of the Sedgwick Building, who accepted the award with her colleagues Gregory Sarka, Mary Tennant and Debra Mosher.
Hoerth and his recently acquired intern from Oregon, Heather Reed, conducted a brief planting tutorial for Morse High School vocational technical students in the school parking lot on May 23. The students then potted 300 pine trees donated by Central Maine Power as part of CMP’s giving back to the environment program.
The trees are raised in the City’s nursery and in a few years are planted or given away to citizens at the annual Bath Community Forestry Committee’s tree giveaway.
The committee began an annual tree giveaway in May of 2011.
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