There is something special about being in the “room where it happens.”

That something, in this case, happened in April 2022 during a Charleston Municipal Beautification Commission roundtable discussion of “big ideas.” It was a spark -- a wish of planting cherry trees throughout Charleston.

This month it happened. The first trees were planted.

I attended the ceremonial planting of two Spring Snow Crabtrees in front of Charleston’s City Hall. It was fun! Mayor Amy Goodwin was there, along with Anna Forbes, chair of Charleston’s Municipal Beautification Commission; members of the Kanawha Garden Club; and a few other tree- and landscape-lovers.

Along with these trees, others were planted at Ruffner Park, Magic Island, Kanawha Boulevard, the entrance of Airport Road, and the Governor’s Man

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