Turtle Grove
This grove is located at the corner of Parkside Road and
Gregory Street in Maxwell Park, and includes 95 trees and 20
species. Special thanks go to Garry Little, Normal Parks and
Recreation, and Mike O’Grady, ISU grounds, for consultation and
assistance, and to Bobby Jones, Normal Parks and Recreation
horticulturalist, for the design. To see the names of the twenty
species in Turtle Grove, click here.
The hundreds of names of the sponsors for the 95 trees in Turtle Grove can be seen here as they appear on tree tags. Special thanks go to Don Schmidt of ISU for supplying the brass tags and preparing the labels.
Click here to see the photographs taken by Pantagraph photographer Carlos Miranda for the November 20, 2005 article on the planting of Turtle Grove. To see the digging of holes, planting and watering of trees, the ceremonial program, and teams members in over 70 images taken by 8 people, please click here. Special thanks go to Mariellen Griffith, Ken Kashian, and Donella Hess-Grabill for many of the photos.
To see the beauty of Turtle Grove in spring 2006, click here.
Click here to read 33 inspiring
stories of team members who participated in Turtle Grove,
why they did so, and what the sponsoring of a tree means to
them. Team members who have not written down their stories can
still do so, and submit them to Kathleen Center,
chapakab1@cs.com.