Mark Smith, construction project manager for Belknap Landscape Company in Gilford, NH, sent me photos and a description of the air-tool transplant his company executed with Piscataqua Landscaping recently. Belknap has been using air tools for transplanting, site preparation (excavating roots at foundation limit lines prior to the foundation excavation), and root forensics, and has also used [...]
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Weeping Norway Spruce bare-root transplant
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, tagged Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, environment, nature, planting trees bare root, remedial root work, root excavation, tree planting, Trees on May 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Update on Picea glauca ‘Conica’ transplant
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, tagged Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, environment, nature, Plant management, planting trees bare root, Sugar maple transplant, tree issues, tree planting, Trees, trunk flare, Wellesley College on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I drove to Wellesley College to see the Dwarf Alberta Spruce that Jim Doyle and Don Garrick had moved bare-root last November. Fritz Hoffman, an Alaska contractor in town to learn about bare-root transplant work, accompanied me, and we walked and walked along the lakeshore looking for the Spruce. Well, it wasn’t there. [...]
Air-tool questions, Part 1
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Jonathan Bransfield, Matt Foti, Mike Furgal, planting trees bare root, tree issues, tree planting, Trees on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A reader, Mark Vanderwouw from Shady Lane Expert Tree Care, Inc. wrote a comment on the post titled Another Air-Tool Bare-Root Transplanting (cross-posted from TakingPlace.net, the other blog I co-write for landscape architects). His company is excavating out several large specimen trees for a one-year storage period, after which they will plant the trees in [...]
Picea glauca bare-root transplant
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, environment, nature, Plant management, tree planting on February 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
At New England Grows, I met Jim Doyle, one of Wellesley College‘s team of arborists. He told me about an air-tool transplant that he and a colleague performed last November at the College. He was kind enough to send photos, and with them included this text, which I have edited only slightly: “My colleague Don [...]
A tree is a living organism
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Root-washing, Roots, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Carl Cathcart, Cavicchio Greenhouses, environment, Inc., nature, planting trees bare root, tree issues, tree planting, Trees on February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Another question asked at last week’s New England Grows about bare-root transplanting was “How do you make sure the roots don’t dry out?” The answer, of course, is that you water the tree you’re moving. You water it thoroughly a couple of days before the transplant, to insure that the tree’s tissues have good turgor pressure [...]
A tree is not a carrot
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, environment, Matt Foti, nature, Plant management, planting trees bare root, root excavation, Roots, tree planting, Trees on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thousands of people showed up at New England Grows this past week. One of the conference’s principal speakers, Bonnie Lee Appleton, unfortunately fell ill and had to cancel her Wednesday talk; for a while the day before the conference it looked as if one of the two convention center ballrooms would be empty for a [...]
Air tool transplant video
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, B&B plants, Bare-root transplanting, Matt Foti, Mike Furgal, Plant management, planting trees bare root, tree planting, Trees on January 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I just got a rough cut today of the video, shot last summer, of the moving of a very large (about 14″ caliper, 30′ height) London Plane Tree. It’s taken a while to edit several hours of footage down to a half an hour, but it’s about done, and in the next few weeks I [...]
Air-tool transplant: Norway Spruce Part 2
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, planting trees bare root, root flare, tree issues, tree planting, Trees, trunk flare on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To continue yesterday’s post on the bare-root transplanting of a Norway spruce at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA: Project site: The Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA Project manager: Sonia Baerhuk Project crew: Rolando Ortega, Mynor Tobar, Santo Masciari
Air-tool transplant: Norway Spruce, Part 1
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, MAA, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Perkins School for the Blind, Plant management, planting trees bare root, root excavation, tree issues, tree planting, Trees, trunk flare on November 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Massachusetts Arborists Assocation bare-root workshops — one in August 2008, and one in August 2009 — have been spreading word through the Commonwealth about the benefits of air-tool tree transplanting, and word is travelling throughout Massachusetts horticulture circles now. A couple of weeks ago I was chatting with Kristen DeSouza, one of the horticulturists [...]
Air tool transplant challenge — excavate and move
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Mike Furgal, Plant management, tree planting, Trees on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mike Furgal sent me photos of an 8″ caliper Weeping White Pine that he moved a couple of weeks ago, remarking that this tree, though relatively small, was the most challenging tree he’s moved bare-root. The tree was situated in a small berm next to a house and a driveway, and shared the bed with a [...]
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