City of Cocoa Designated a Tree City USA, Enter Your Favorite Tree Image in Photo Contest

Submit your entry by 5 p.m. on April 15

BREVARD COUNTY • COCOA, FLORIDA – The City of Cocoa has been designated a Tree City USA, and to commemorate this recognition, we invite our citizens and visitors to share their favorite tree in the City.

A well-maintained and healthy tree canopy provide beauty for our community. Trees also benefit us by improving air quality, reducing heat with shade, providing wildlife habitat, absorbing stormwater, and protecting us during storms by dampening winds.

Show Us Your Trees

Use your phone or favorite camera to take a photo of your favorite Cocoa tree and enter it in one of our designated categories listed below. Photos will be judged based on the categories they were entered.

A winner will be selected from each category as well as people’s choices. Invasive species of trees will not be considered for this contest. Previous entries will not be considered for a winning entry this year.

Categories

Anyone Home?: Things that live in trees. Trees provide a habitat for wildlife. Let’s see some shots of the creatures living in our trees.

Parts of a Tree: Leaves, bark, limbs. Get creative. Let’s see the many beneficial parts of our community trees.

Close-ups: Here is another opportunity to be creative with your photo. Show us a wonderful close-up of a Cocoa tree.

Horticultural Atrocities: Learn to avoid these crimes against horticulture. Show us an instance of a tree trimming or pruning going bad.

Canopy of Trees: A great canopy of trees can provide a number of great benefits including shade and protection. Show us a great tree canopy.
What do trees do for us?: Show us the benefit you see in your favorite tree. Do you use it to hang a swing or as a home for your favorite birds?

People’s Choice: All photos entered in the contest will be put on the City of Cocoa’s Facebook page and the photo with the most likes will be crowned People’s Choice.

Deadline

Submit your entry by 5 p.m. on April 15

Winning Entries

Winners will be contacted by Friday, April 22, 2022, and invited to the Cocoa City Council Meeting on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, for recognition.

Contest winners will be displayed at City Hall and at April 29, 2022, Arbor Day Event at City Hall from 4-7 pm.

Judging Committee

Our judging committee is comprised of various members of the community including:

■ Councilwoman for District 4, Lorraine Koss

■ Citizen and Landscape expert, Linda Gombert

■ Property Owner, volunteer, and member of the City’s Tree Board and Planning and Zoning Board, Aleck Greenwood

■ Members of Keep Brevard Beautiful, Kristina Fannin, and Bryan Bobbitt

■ Extension agent II, M.S., horticulture from UF/IFAS Extension Brevard County, Cocoa, FL, Sally Scalera

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