Hartney Greymont of Needham, MA has the most effective reminder this year to schedule winter moth treatments. In November they sent out color postcards showing a single winter moth, about 6 times life-sized. On the back the cards explain that the brown moths visible in November are parents of the caterpillars that will feed on [...]
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Winter moth heads up
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged winter moth, advertising, Hartney Greymont, nature, environment on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What’s wrong with these pictures?
Posted in Miscellaneous, Plant management, Roots, Trees, tagged Plant management, root mass, Roots, tree issues, Trees on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Say you’re a growing country club in a nicely-treed community, and you need to enlarge your parking lot. And perhaps you want to lower its grade. The lot has some mature oak trees in it, and they add a certain je ne sais quoi to the scene, so you decide to save the trees by [...]
The season for Burning Bush
Posted in Miscellaneous, Opportunistic plants, Plant management, Plant selection, Shrubs, tagged environment, Euonymus alatus, invasive species, nature, Oriental bittersweet on November 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Burning Bush Last week I was driving through a shady and pleasant part of Wellesley, MA, enjoying the really stunning show of fall colors. One bucolic road was flanked on one side by a steep wooded hill, at the bottom of which a small stream flowed next to the road. I noticed that the brightest [...]
Big-leafed mystery
Posted in Miscellaneous, Trees, tagged Paulownia on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last June, I notice three small woody plants in the front yard of an unassuming house in my town. They had each been carefully planted and mulched, and each had enormous leaves — about 12″ across, which for a three-foot high plant really is enormous. I was fascinated, and through the summer watched them take [...]
Root flare
Posted in Miscellaneous, Trees, tagged root flare, tree issues, Trees, trunk flare on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Root flare — where the trunk of a tree and its roots meet — is a critical juncture in a tree’s anatomy. Nowadays, trees coming onto the Massachusetts market often have root flares buried in the B&B root ball when they reach a job site for planting. The contractor then has to remove the covering [...]
Gleditsia pods
Posted in Miscellaneous, Trees, tagged honey locust on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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