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Tree Care Advisory Board merges Arbor Day with mural event, outlines planting calendar and ash-borer concerns
Summary
The Tree Care Advisory Board and urban forestry staff presented plans to combine Arbor Day activities with a mural/arts event at Windermere Park on Nov. 8, detailed volunteer planting schedules through spring 2026, and raised concerns about emerald ash borer risk to local ash stands.
Tree Care Advisory Board members briefed the commission on urban forestry programs, volunteer plantings and a combined Arbor Day + Art event planned for Windermere Park on November 8.
Board representatives said organizers moved Arbor Day activities from Black Locust Park to Windermere Park to align tree plantings with a nearby mural painting and arts activities. The event’s program zones include volunteer tree plantings, a woodturning demonstration, Davey Tree Expert Company live climbing demos, wildflower seed-ball making hosted by the Pflugerville Parks Foundation, touch-a-truck exhibits and a mural/mini-canvas art area. Event parking will use a maintenance road near the pool allowing roughly 50 cars and additional neighborhood overflow.
The board described a planting calendar: citizen forester training and certification events with associated plantings, partnership plantings with Cross Life Church volunteers, planned sapling plantings in spring 2026, replacement plantings at Pflugerville Public Library to replace storm- and drought-lost trees, and additional planting at Lake Pflugerville and small pocket parks such as Cambridge Estates Park. The board said a proposed planting at Carilion Park depends on construction completion.
Urban forestry staff flagged the emerald ash borer as an impending pest risk; representatives said the beetle is documented within two counties and can cause up to ~90% decline of ash populations within about a decade after local establishment. The board discussed adaptive planting choices to increase species diversity in riparian stands currently dominated by ash.
Board staff invited volunteers for upcoming events (including a November 15 lake planting and the Nov. 8 Windermere Park Arbor Day + Art event) and asked commissioners for continued outreach to recruit volunteers and resources. No formal action was taken.
