Work will begin as early as this week on the Lake City Main Street Landscape Project, with tree removal beginning as early as Friday.
The Lake City Community Foundation, Lake City Beautification Committee and the city of Lake City are undertaking this project to plant trees better suited to the growing conditions on Main Street and to add a significant amount of flowering and evergreen shrubs, ornamental grasses and perennial flowers to the beds. The project is part of an ongoing effort to create a more appealing destination downtown.
The project will entail planting 34 trees, including redbud, "Bosque" lacebark elm, Chinese pistache, Nuttall oak and bald cypress.
Redbuds produce lavender blooms each spring, and both Chinese pistache and Nuttall oak will have red fall foliage. Bald cypress is native to our area, and it has a handsome pyramidal shape as well as bronze foliage in the fall. The "Bosque" elms were selected for their upright branching habit, which is needed in narrow spaces. Plants selected for the understory include "blushing" knockout rose, camellias, rosemary, crinum lilies, and silver leaved saw palm.
Removal of the existing live oaks will be the first noticeable step, and the area will look bare until the new plants are installed. Tree removal could begin Friday, and the entire project is expected to be complete by mid-to-late March. Some of the work will be scheduled on weekends to avoid peak traffic flow.
The Lake City Community Foundation has projects under way to plant 41 trees at the city municipal complex, on Kelley Street; 68 trees at the Senior Center on North Acline Street; and 40 trees at Lions Park. In addition, it will plant trees in the Kennedy Park neighborhood, place evergreen trees to screen the city maintenance shed on North Church Street, and add ground cover and perennials to Theater Park on Main Street.
The Lake City Community Foundation has also received a grant from the South Carolina Forestry Commission to inventory all trees on street rights-of-way within Lake City and to employ a consulting arborist to oversee the Main Street project. The Lake City community Foundation is adding more than 200 trees to public property, where 920 trees have been inventoried.
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