Park board selling $10 trees during Doors Open Vancouver

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      Go to the Vancouver park board's Stanley Park head office Saturday (October 3) and get $500 worth of young trees for only $50.

      That's the main attraction of the board's participation in the second annual Doors Open Vancouver city initiative.

      As part of the board's support of the city's official Urban Forest Strategy, it has set a target of 11,000 new trees to be planted by the end of 2015, including some on private property.

      That's where citizens come in to the picture. For only $10 each (and with a value of up to $100 apiece), to a limit of five, Vancouver residents who show proper ID with proof of residency can purchase two-metre-tall young trees in seven- to 10-gallon pots.

      These include flowering ornamental trees (like the gorgeous snowcone Japanese snowbell), shade trees (such as autumn gold gingko, a living fossil whose ancestors grew 250 million years ago), fruit trees (apple, cherry, and the East Van staple, the Italian prune plum) and conifers (including the unique Frohburg weeping Norway spruce and the dwarf mountain pine "mops", popular in rock gardens).

      Go to 2099 Beach Avenue between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. to purchase the trees, but go early if you want to ensure the species you desire is still in stock.

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