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, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, arboriculture, tagged Air tool transplanting, Air tool, Bare-root transplanting, air tool use, root excavation, remedial root work, arboriculture, planting trees bare root, tree planting, Trees, Air spade, air spade transplanting, nature, environment on May 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Update on Picea glauca ‘Conica’ transplant
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, arboriculture, tagged Air tool transplanting, Bare-root transplanting, tree issues, air tool use, trunk flare, arboriculture, Plant management, planting trees bare root, tree planting, Trees, Sugar maple transplant, Wellesley College, nature, environment 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, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, arboriculture, tagged Air tool transplanting, Air tool, Bare-root transplanting, tree issues, air tool use, Mike Furgal, Matt Foti, arboriculture, planting trees bare root, tree planting, Trees, Air spade, Air knife, air spade transplanting, Jonathan Bransfield 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, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, arboriculture, tagged Air tool transplanting, Air tool, Bare-root transplanting, air tool use, arboriculture, Plant management, tree planting, Air spade, Air knife, air spade transplanting, nature, environment 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, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Root-washing, Roots, Trees, arboriculture, tagged Air tool transplanting, Air tool, Bare-root transplanting, tree issues, air tool use, Carl Cathcart, arboriculture, planting trees bare root, tree planting, Trees, Air spade, Air knife, air spade transplanting, Cavicchio Greenhouses, Inc., nature, environment 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, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, arboriculture, tagged Air tool transplanting, Air tool, Bare-root transplanting, air tool use, root excavation, Matt Foti, arboriculture, Plant management, planting trees bare root, tree planting, Trees, Air spade, Air knife, air spade transplanting, Roots, nature, environment 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 [...]
London Plane transplant video
Posted in Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Trees, arboriculture, tagged Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, air tool transplant video, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, arboriculture, bare-root transplant video, Bare-root transplanting, Matt Foti, Mike Furgal, tree planting on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Word is in: the rough cut of the London Plane transplant video I’ve been working on will be showing at the Foti Tree and Landscaping booth at New England Grows tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday. If you want to take a look at how these guys moved five very large (12-14″ caliper, 30′ high) London Plane [...]
Air tool transplant video
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Bare-root transplanting, Trees, arboriculture, tagged Air tool transplanting, Air tool, Bare-root transplanting, air tool use, B&B plants, Mike Furgal, Matt Foti, arboriculture, Plant management, planting trees bare root, tree planting, Trees, Air spade, Air knife, air spade transplanting 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 [...]
A note of thanks
Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Trees, arboriculture, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, backfill, Bare-root transplanting, Carl Cathcart, container plants, MAA, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Matt Foti, Mike Furgal, remedial root work, root excavation, tree issues on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the year since I’ve been writing about bare-root transplanting and air-tool use, I’ve had the great good fortune to be able to ask questions of the real experts, the arborists who are doing this work and promoting it throughout Massachusetts and the US. Three in particular have been especially helpful: Mike Furgal, the original [...]
MAA Elm Bank workshop6 — air tool tree transplanting
Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, arboriculture, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, backfill, Bare-root transplanting, MAA, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Massachusetts Horticulture Society, Mike Furgal, tree issues, trunk flare on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Air spade tree transplanting. Warning: Long post, tons of photos. Probably the biggest draw of the Elm Bank workshop on September 10, 2009, was Mike Furgal’s moving of a 6″ caliper elm hybrid. Mike first developed the method of air-tool bare-root transplanting in 2004, and has been working on it since, moving ornamental specimens and [...]
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