Volunteer Tree Planting
Highland Park Tree Planting
November 1, 2025
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, the DTE Energy Foundation, Rescue MI Nature NOW, and volunteers planted 20 trees in Highland Park on Saturday, November 1st. The trees planted are helping to reestablish a healthy tree canopy, increase shade, reduce neighborhood blight, and support local resilience by including shade and edible fruiting tree species.
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 fall 2025 when this planting occurred, ReLeaf Michigan had planted over 35,000 trees in 722+ 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.]
- Prunus cerasus ‘Montmorency’ – Montmorency Tart Cherry
- Prunus cerasus ‘Montmorency’ – Montmorency Tart Cherry
- Prunus cerasus ‘Montmorency’ – Montmorency Tart Cherry
- Prunus cerasus ‘Montmorency’ – Montmorency Tart Cherry
- Prunus domestica – Stanley plum
- Prunus domestica – Black ice plum
- Prunus domestica – Stanley plum
- Prunus domestica – Toka plum
- Amelanchier x grandiflora – Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry
- Prunus armeniaca – Puget gold apricot
- Prunus armeniaca – Moorpark apricot
- Prunus persica – Reliance peach
- Pyrus – 20th Century pear
- Malus domestica – Sweet sixteen
- Malus domestica – Granny smith
- Pyrus – Bartlett
- Pyrus – Bartlett
- Prunus persica – Frost peach
- Cercis canadensis – Eastern redbud
- Cercis canadensis – Eastern redbud