Volunteer Tree Planting
Trenton Tree Planting
October 8, 2023
About the Tag
ReLeaf Michigan and the DTE Energy Foundation feel strongly about education related to planting and maintaining trees. Tree ID tags were created and placed on DTE-funded trees to further engage communities. Scanning the tag QR code brings people to a planting specific webpage like this one! More information can be learned about the particular planting and the trees planted. Thank you for checking it out!
About the Planting
In this planting ReLeaf Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation, Trenton High School, the city of Trenton, and volunteers planted 20 trees at Lexington Park on Saturday, October 28th. The trees were planted to help manage the park’s floodplain and to replace ash trees that are succumbing to the Emerald Ash Borer.
About the DTE Energy Foundation
The DTE Energy Foundation (“Foundation”) is the philanthropic arm of DTE Energy (“DTE”) and supports initiatives focused on art and culture, community transformation, economic progress, education and employment, environment, and human needs. For more than 20 years, the Foundation has invested in communities where DTE has a business presence. In 2022, the Foundation provided more than $15 million in grant support to over 300 nonprofits.
About ReLeaf Michigan
ReLeaf Michigan is Michigan’s only statewide tree planting non-profit organization, working with communities and organizations throughout Michigan to protect and restore our urban tree canopies. Founded by some of the most respected arborists in the state, ReLeaf Michigan plants the Right Tree in the Right Place at the Right Time to ensure each tree thrives for generations to come.
As of spring 2025 when this planting occurred, ReLeaf Michigan had planted over 33,500 trees in 700+ communities throughout Michigan. and, through community workshops, increased awareness of the important benefits trees provide. Our communities are stronger when they are greener. People are healthier, the air is cleaner, infrastructure is more efficient, and the economy is stronger with trees.
Photos
Trees Planted
Click on each tree species below to learn more about it.
[Note: specific cultivars are not always described at the Morton arboretum link.]
- Quercus bicolor – Swamp white oak
- Betula nigra – River birch
- Ulmus americana ‘Princeton’ – ‘Princeton’ American Elm
- Taxodium distichum – Bald cypress
- Metasequoia glyptostroboides – Dawn redwood
- Platanus x acerifolia ‘Morton Circle’ – EXCLAMATION™ London planetree
- Nyssa sylvatica ‘Wildfire’ – ‘Wildfire’ Black gum
- Gymnocladus dioicus – Kentucky Coffeetree
- Taxodium distichum – Bald cypress
- Liquidambar styraciflua – Sweetgum
- Quercus bicolor – Swamp white oak
- Platanus x acerifolia ‘Morton Circle’ – EXCLAMATION™ London planetree
- Gymnocladus dioicus – Kentucky Coffeetree
- Liriodendron tulipifera – Tulip Tree
- Metasequoia glyptostroboides – Dawn redwood
- Betula nigra – River birch
- Liriodendron tulipifera – Tulip Tree
- Ulmus americana ‘Princeton’ – ‘Princeton’ American Elm
- Nyssa sylvatica ‘Wildfire’ – ‘Wildfire’ Black gum
- Liquidambar styraciflua – Sweetgum