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.