Beverly Hills Recognized as Tree City USA
by Tanaz Akhlaghi on April 26, 2010If you walk or drive through Beverly Hills, you can’t help but notice thousands of neatly manicured trees that line the city streets and public parks.
With over 30,000 trees just on public grounds, gardeners work six days a week to maintain this Eden-like atmosphere. Each street in the Beverly Hills Flats maintains a unique tree. Beverly Drive is famous for its tall and swaying palm trees, while Maple Drive has matching maple trees lined from Santa Monica to Sunset Boulevards.
As Beverly Hills proudly maintains the integrity of the City’s landscape heritage, it has been recognized once again as a “Tree City USA” community by the Arbor Day Foundation. This award is designed to recognize communities that effectively manage their public tree resources, and to encourage the implementation of community tree management based on four Tree City USA standards.
To qualify as a Tree City in a given year, a jurisdiction must have a tree board or department responsible for tree care, a tree care ordinance, an urban forestry program supported by the spending of at least $2 per capita, and a proclamation recognizing and celebrating Arbor Day.
Mayor Jimmy Delshad has proclaimed Friday, April 30, 2010 as Arbor Day for the city of Beverly Hills. A tree planting ceremony and the presentation to the 25th consecutive Tree City USA award to the City of Beverly Hills will kick off the celebrations at Coldwater Canyon Park at 10 am.
It’s no secret that trees help the environment. They moderate our climate, improve our air quality, conserve water, and shelter a wide variety of wildlife. In fact, they are on the job 24 hours a day working for all of us to improve our quality of life. If nothing else, they give us a reason to take a moment, close our eyes, relax and listen to the melody orchestrated by the birds they harbor and the wind they allow through their leaves. Can you imagine a world without them?
Do you have a favorite tree-lined street in the Beverly Hills Flats? Please share your thoughts. I always enjoy hearing from you!
One of my favorite trees in Beverly Hills sits on the corner of Beverly Drive and Santa Monica. It’s an Australian fig tree and it’s almost 100 years old. It’s truly magnificent.
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Visiting Beverly Hills a few years ago, I was struck by beautiful trees I didn’t recognize lining some streets and I’ve been completely unsuccessful trying to learn what they are. I only saw them driving through so my memory of the specifics is limited.
They had light grey-ish trunks that were fairly thick though not massive, perhaps 12-18″ in diameter, and the bark seemed quite smooth. That was their most distinctive characteristic. They weren’t terribly tall, maybe 20-30 feet and the leaves seemed like they must be deciduous.
I hope someone here can identify them.
Jonna: If someone is not able to identify them based on your description, perhaps it’s time for another visit. Please feel free to contact me!
It’s so beautiful in Beverly Hills.
Actually the trees on Maple Drive are not maples, they’re camphor trees. There are maples on Alden Drive, though.
Hi Tom! I was told that it’s maple, but thank you for the clarification. Are you familiar with the area or do you love everything about trees? Perhaps both?
Actually, I live on Maple. But I do love the trees as well!
Tom, Maple Drive is one of my favorite streets in the flats. One of the most expensive homes to sell North of Santa Monica and South of Sunset was on Maple. It was on the 700 block and sold for $9,300,000!