ULUPALAKUA – Friends of the D.T. Fleming Arboretum has received a $6,385.00 grant from the Maui County Office of Economic Development for "Project Health".
Project Health will professionally prune the D.T. Fleming Arboretum’s trees, top-dress the trees with rich composted mulch, cut down and transform invasive wattle trees into a onsite source of mulch to be composted for future use while clearing for restoration of native habitat.
A seed source for public and private nurseries statewide, The D.T. Fleming is Maui's oldest and largest native Arboretum. Founded in 1950 by agriculture and horticulture pioneer D.T. Fleming, today the Arboretum preserves 400 trees of 102 species, including the last seed producing survivor of the endangered Maui Alani, Melicope knudsenii.
Project Health will promote the health of the D.T. Fleming Arboretum--a valuable seed bank for the survival of Hawai`i's rare native plant species and native habitat restoration. efforts.
For more information about the Arboretum visit www.flemingarboretum.org or call 808-572-1097.
