Get your fall native tree at CFC sale

With the coming of summer heat, we can all appreciate the shade that trees and shrubs provide.

Besides cooling the air, trees and shrubs reduce noise, absorb stormwater, clean air pollution and block winter winds. Native trees and shrubs provide the best choices of woody plants because they provide those benefits and more:

• Natives can survive our extreme temperatures;

• Natives need watering only the first year or two to get established;

• Natives do not need fertilizer or insecticide;

• Natives provide habitat for the insects that feed birds, nestlings and amphibians.

Check your yard to see if you have a place for a native tree or shrub to support bird populations and the native insects on which they rely.

If you want more information about the natives for sale this fall, join Citizens for Conservation for "Native Trees and Shrubs," a discussion presented by Meredith Tucker and Annamarie Lukes at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, at the Barrington village hall, 200 S. Hough St. RSVP to CFC at (847) 382-SAVE. All plants discussed will be available for purchase online at www.citizensforconservation.org.

Citizens for Conservation's annual Fall Native Tree and Shrub Sale sells by preorder only. Find the order form at www.citizensforconservation.org, or one can be mailed to you by calling (847) 382-SAVE.

Orders will be accepted Aug. 1 through Sept. 1. Plan to pick up your trees between 9:30 a.m. and noon Saturday, Sept. 19, at CFC headquarters, the white farm house and silo at 459 W. Hwy. 22, Lake Barrington.

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