SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT: Turner Industries “Plants It Forward” With Baton Rouge Green’s Help

Col­lege Dri­ve at I‑10 Liv­ing Road­ways Site Gets Upgrades
June 25, 2018

This spring Baton Rouge Green installed 2,500 addi­tion­al native shrubs and grass­es at our Liv­ing Road­ways site at Col­lege Dri­ve and I‑10. The addi­tion­al wax myr­tles, muh­ly grass­es and com­mon rush will fill out these beds beau­ti­ful­ly as they estab­lish. The trees first plant­ed in 2015/2016 are real­ly com­ing into their own and grow­ing rapid­ly! The Col­lege Dri­ve site was made pos­si­ble by our friends at Turn­er Industries.

Turn­er first approached Baton Rouge Green about the endeav­or in 2013. After sev­er­al rounds of design and mod­i­fi­ca­tions work­ing with both Louisiana Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion and Devel­op­ment (LADOTD) and East Baton Rouge City-Parish Depart­ment of Pub­lic Works (DPW), the final design was per­mit­ted to pro­ceed in 2015. The project began with an ini­tial bed con­struc­tion and plant­i­ng from win­ter 2015 to spring 2016. Baton Rouge Green’s Direc­tor of Oper­a­tions, Robert See­mann, ISA, a cer­ti­fied arborist with a Mas­ters’ in Land­scape Archi­tec­ture, is respon­si­ble for the native plant palate and has also over­seen the entire process, includ­ing the recent additions.

Baton Rouge Green is incred­i­bly grate­ful for Turner’s com­mit­ment and gen­er­ous sup­port of this project. We hope Baton Rouge cit­i­zens enjoy­ing this love­ly green space on their com­mute will remem­ber Turner’s gift!

Thanks also to Rais­ing Cane’s who is a site spon­sor as well!