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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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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

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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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Air tool transplant challenge — excavate and move

Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , 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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Air spade transplanting

Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Posted on Taking Place on July 1, 2009: A few posts back I mentioned my February 2009 article in Lawn and Landscape Magazine on bare-root tree transplanting using an air spade. That article was preceded by my December 1, 2008 article in American Nurseryman, in which news of the technique debuted. Both articles describe the [...]

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Refinement

Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Plant management, Shrubs, Trees, Uncategorized on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

No, that’s not a shot of a revolutionary way of planting in pavement — that’s a photo of one of the enormous China Girl hollies being taken to its new home at the property belonging to L. and A., my longtime clients. This holly is a mature plant; in my Air Spade In Action post [...]

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Air spade in action

Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Shrubs, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This past winter I developed plans for a couple of areas on the property belonging to my longest-standing and wonderfully enthusiastic clients, L. and A. on the North Shore. They have a lovely place on a rocky cliff overlooking Nahant Bay, and they enjoy making it even more beautiful and comfortable each year. They are [...]

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