Tuscany Canterbury Trees and Tree Stewards

September 2024

The TCNA Tree Stewards Committee is pleased to report that two tree stumps on Cloverhill Road (leftover from dead trees taken down by the city) have been ground up. Next steps are for new trees to be planted this fall. We also anticipate that three or four new trees will also be planted next spring after stump removal.

Summer 2024

Tuscany-Canterbury identified 5 trees needed to be removed on Tuscany Road, Cloverhill Road, University Parkway, and 2 in Linkwood Park. Repeated requests were sent to the City for years to remove the dead trees. President Pat Hawthorne, with the help of Lia Lynch in the Mayor’s Office, successfully had these trees removed.

Eleven stumps were left behind in the neighborhood after trees were cut down. The city will grind up existing stumps and plant free replacements for residents who want a new tree in front of their homes and are willing to water it until it becomes established.

TCNA Tree Stewards are contacting residents who have stumps in front of their homes and who might want to care for a new tree.

Role of Tree Stewards

One of the most important roles of our Tree Stewards is to report dead trees, and monitor their removal, stump removal and replacement with new trees.

As our Tree Stewards start work, we will update this site to reflect their reports and progress in replacing dead trees.

BALTIMORE TREE CANOPY from 2010

Tree Canopy: Baltimore, MD, September 22, 2017 – While most urban communities throughout the U.S. are losing tree canopy cover due to a wide variety of threats – including insects, disease, and storms – Baltimore is bucking the trend. Between 2007 to 2015, the City of Baltimore saw a small increase in its urban tree canopy cover.

Data analyzed by the U.S. Forest Service in collaboration with the City of Baltimore and the University of Vermont show that the city’s urban tree canopy inched up from 27 percent to 28 percent between 2007 and 2015. Tree canopy is the extent of the outer layers of leaves, or canopy, of a tree or group of trees. Percentage of tree canopy cover measures the portion of an area that has tree coverage when viewed or measured from above. While the increase in tree canopy is not dramatic, it is a meaningful step in the right direction, according to Morgan Grove, a research forester and team leader in the Forest Service’s Baltimore Field Station.
TCNA continually works to increase tree cover in the neighborhood. See below for recent tree plantings…

2024 TCNA started a Tree Steward program. The Goal: Keep Tuscany-Canterbury Green and Tree-healthy If you are interested contact presidentTCNA@gmail.com

New Trees in Bishop's Park

UPDATE BISHOP’S PARK (Northwest corner — University Parkway and Charles Street)

Here’s an update on the Bishop Square planting. Attached is a preliminary plan which has been approved by the city. Thanks goes to The Cathedral of the Incarnation and One Water Partnership who are paying for the trees. It works out to be 27 trees. The date of the planting is up in the air right now but will probably be a weekday in late October or early November.

The project includes both small and large trees. Large would be a typical large canopy street tree, such as oaks, elms etc., and small would be a tree that would top out eventually at 25-40 feet and smaller spread. Small trees such as hawthorns and serviceberries would be placed behind the monument and along University to avoid impacting street lights.