TreesLouisville and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet have initiated a creative and innovative partnership to plant and maintain roadside vegetation in an effort to improve the safety and aesthetics of roadside rights-of-way. Our goal is to have safe, beautiful, stable, and self-sustaining landscapes with minimal maintenance requirements, designed with seasonal interest, plant diversity, and longevity in mind.
Despite the tough highway conditions, this planting, consisting of Suttnerii
planetrees and Hollywood junipers (pictured here), is doing well.
This project was completed in January 2023. It added 27 trees of three different species
to the highway exit. These trees will bring some greenery to the area.
Extending from Hurstborne Parkway's Taylorsville Road intersection to it's Bardstown Road intersection,
this planting is a visible example of the kind of change a major tree planting can bring to a corridor.
Located in the heart of spaghetti junction, this reforestation planting not only looks great, it also saves tax dollars.
By reducing the amount of land KYTC has to mow along the highway, they save money every summer!