by Lionel Bascom — April 14th, 2007 — 1 comment
Sweetgum trees will be planted in the World Trade Center Memorial plaza.
The trees will be donated by horticulturists from Maryland.
Maryland officials are sending 31 trees that stand between 15 and 20 feet tall. The trees will be kept in a central New Jersey tree nursery until they stand 25 feet tall. They will be planted in a plaza around the Reflecting Absence memorial in 2009. The designers of the memorial say the sweetgum trees were chosen because their leaves change from green to a bright red in September, the anniversary month of the September 11 attacks. The red foliage will symbolize the cycle of life from green to red.
10:33 PM in Uncategorized, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, The Attack, Related Stories, Terrorist Threat, Freedom Tower News
What a beautiful memorial! Sweetgum trees. Now, intelligent minds are coming up with some wonderful ways to remember the victims and maintain a semblance of natural beauty. This is definitely a good sign.
Jeanne · April 15th, 2007 at 1:29 am