PA Horticultural Society Selected As Partner For TD Trees Days To Plant Trees In Philadelphia Oct. 20

TD Bank has selected the PA Horticultural Society to participate in TD Tree Days, a community-based program that expands urban forests and green spaces in low- to moderate-income neighborhoods.

Staff and volunteers of PHS will join local employees of TD Bank to plant 19 trees, along with shrubs and ornamental grasses, at the Orinoka Civic House at 2771-2777 Ruth Street in Philadelphia on October 20 at 9 a.m.

Orinoka Civic House is a mixed-use development on the site of the former Orinoka Mills factory in the Kensington neighborhood that will offer 51 units of sustainable, affordable housing and an indoor community area, as well as a small commercial space and room for the main offices of the New Kensington Community Development Corporation, which is leading the project.

"We're proud to partner with PHS during TD Tree Days to nurture the Kensington community and the environment from the ground up," said Joseph Doolan, TD Bank's Head of Environmental Affairs. "Trees do much more than beautify our communities – they produce oxygen; improve air quality and slow climate change by reducing carbon emissions, airborne pollutants and smog; provide cooling shade to reduce energy costs; and enhance the quality of life."

“PHS is grateful for the opportunity to partner with TD Tree Days in the Kensington neighborhood,” said PHS President Matt Rader. “These tree plantings engage and empower residents to transform their communities through green projects.”

PHS is one of 18 organizations in the United States that was chosen to participate in TD Tree Days through an application process. TD Bank provides grants for the community tree plantings.

Now in its seventh year, TD Tree Days will bring together more than 1,000 community members and TD employees from September through early November to plant approximately 850 trees in 21 communities across the United States.

TD Tree Days will be managed with support from The Arbor Day Foundation. Founded in 2010, the program has made a significant positive impact for communities and the environment as TD's flagship volunteer and urban greening program, planting more than 285,000 trees and shrubs, primarily in Canada and the U.S.

In addition to Philadelphia, TD Tree Days events are scheduled in these communities this fall: Delray Beach, Miami and Tampa, Florida; Mattapan, Massachusetts; Auburn, Maine; Detroit, Michigan; Asheville and Wilmington, North Carolina; Camden, Jersey City, Newark and Westampton, New Jersey; the Bronx and Brooklyn, New York; Chester, Pennsylvania; Warwick, Rhode Island; Columbia and Greenville, South Carolina; and Alexandria, Virginia.

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