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Darrell
Waldron’s Tree Planting
A tree was planted recently in
Darrell’s memory by the Chevy Chase Estates Garden Club.
It was very fitting that a white alder tree was chosen.
The white alder was the tree that Darrell’s grandfather,
“Pop” Waldron, brought down from the hills and introduced to
the nursery industry.
Sterling, Darrell’s brother
and partner at Sheridan Gardens, remembers as a kid going to Big
Tujunga Canyon with Uncle Lloyd and Darrell to dig up trees for
Pop from the dry riverbed. They
would wrap them in burlap and bring them back to can up and sell
at the nursery.
The white alder is a riparian
tree. It grows by the
riverbeds because it likes its feet wet.
It’s a perfect “park” or
“open space” tree because it likes lots of water, and grows
quickly to make shade in the summer.
Being deciduous, it loses most of its leaves and allows the
sun to shine through in the winter.
We are so honored that our
brother, son, father, and friend was remembered in this lovely,
and oh so VERY "Darrell" way.
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