Parowan Seedling List

The City of Parowan has an urban forest with 4000 (potential) trees. Unfortunately, some of them do not survive from year to year. This green ash was cut down by (none other than) Parowan's Prophet. For replacements, the City has a little nursery with the space for about 200 seedlings. Rural Ways has worked for many hours at the nursery, planting and watering trees. As the winter of 2010/2011 comes to an end, we need to select this year's crop of seedlings. This is how the list is shaping up. First, we're going to replace the Prophet's green ash, so we are ordering 10 of them (Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh.). Then, we need hardy, easy-growing street trees that do well in Parowan, so we'll order 40 or 50 hackberrys, honeylocusts, sycamores, mulberries, and walnuts (Celtis occidentalis, Gleditsia triacanthos, Platanus occidentalis, Morus rubra, Juglans nigra). Finally, we need some species diversity, so we will try a few black gums, catalpas, crabapples, and Simon poplars (Nyssa sylvatica, Catalpa speciosa, Malus x. prairiefire, Populus simonii). Are we missing any favorites?