For The Love of Trees: Arbor Day in the Yarra Ranges

Did you know that community tree planting began with Arbor Day in the late 1880s?

Each year thousands come together in July for National Tree Day, celebrating the importance of trees and rehabilitating our natural environment.

In Lilydale Arbor Day was inaugurated in 1897 before spreading throughout the Yarra Ranges region to Montrose, Kilysth and Mooroolbark.

For The Love of Trees: Arbor Day in the Yarra Ranges features photographs that depict the festivities and fever that propelled the success of Arbor Day across this region and the importance of these trees to our history, heritage, and community.