{"id":538,"date":"2022-01-12T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/?p=538"},"modified":"2022-09-12T16:53:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:53:22","slug":"alice-white-speaks-on-planting-native-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Alice White Speaks On Planting Native Trees &#8211; &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Submitted By:&nbsp; Sara Wolf<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island members met on Monday, January 10, 2022.&nbsp; After the Club business meeting, guest Speaker Alice White addressed the members on Planting Native Trees.&nbsp; White is President of People for Trees, Inc., a 501(c) 3 charitable and educational organization with its headquarters in North Port, Florida.&nbsp; The goals of People for Trees, Inc. are to plant native trees in Florida communities; to encourage tree-planting by residents, building contractors and local governments; and to educate the public about the importance of trees to our health and to our environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White\u2019s presentation to the club members included several facts to raise awareness of the importance and economic benefits of planting Florida native or Florida-friendly trees in our landscapes.&nbsp; Trees provide shade, which lowers the cost of air-conditioning in our homes;&nbsp; one tree absorbs 400,000 gallons of water, which reduces water run-off after heavy rains; crime is lower in green communities; a well-treed neighborhood can save at least $725,000 in energy costs.&nbsp; White said that while we all love our palm trees, shade trees produce more benefit than palm trees.&nbsp; They offer shade, they absorb water, they produce oxygen, and they buffer their surroundings during storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monique Doyle, Second Vice-President of the Club, introduced three new members at the meeting.&nbsp; The new members are Maureen McFarland, Jo-Ann Carroll, and Jeanne Schultz.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PT1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island\" class=\"wp-image-539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PT1-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PT1-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island is a Section 501(c)3 organization and is a member of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs.&nbsp; Membership is open to persons interested in horticulture, floral design and environmental matters residing 5 months or more in Collier County.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island meets the second Monday of each month, October through April at Wesley United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.&nbsp; If you are interested in membership, please contact the Garden Club at calusagardenclub@yahoo.com.&nbsp; For updates and information, please visit the Garden Club\u2019s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/calusa.org\">calusa.org<\/a>, or visit the Club\u2019s Facebook page Calusa Garden Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Alice White addressed the members on Planting Native Trees.\u00a0 White is President of People for Trees, Inc., a 501(c) 3 charitable and educational organization with its headquarters in North Port, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.calusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}