A Toronto Island Elm is Thriving
The Elm on Oneida , one of the few community elms still vital is being looked after by Tyler Ganton and his crew. This restoration is jointly funded by TreeTrust.ca …
Toronto Island Legacy Trees
This Ash Continues to Rise
This ash has risen to great heights since it was planted in the 1980s. The City has protected it from the ash borer, and through a collaboration with the homeowners …
A Legacy Silver Maple Cared For and is Giving Back
Thanks to a collaboration between generous donors to Tree Trust and the homeowner, this legacy Silver Maple received arboricultural care to help extend its life. Along with being a carbon …
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Toronto Island Silver Maple
This beautiful 75 year old Silver Maple needed our care after the significant floods in 2017 and 2019. The success was in balancing the canopy from the pruning the backing …
Toronto Island Tree Trust cares for Silver Maple in dire need of help
In the summer of 2021, We Care Tree Care stewarded an aged Silver Maple on Third Street to help extend its life.
Art Gay memorial tree correctively pruned for future success as a carbon storehouse
Not all trees make it to 100 – and most of the time, it’s because of structural issues that could have been fixed when they were younger. In 2021, Tree …
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Restoring six Tamaracks and planting to diversify the Island’s urban forest
In 2021, Tyler Ganton from We Care Tree Care worked throughout the summer to restore six Tamaracks, relatively rare on the Island, to help extend their life. These native Tamarack …
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Homeowner plants tree 60 years ago – this year, Tree Trust restores it to honour her 104th birthday
Rose Wilson has been living on the Toronto Islands since 1953. Her husband Ken was working for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) back when the Commission also ran the ferries …