Last week Matt Foti sent me photos of a bare-root transplant his crew performed on 25 March 2012 in downtown Boston. They blew soil off the roots of an 8.5″ caliper weeping hornbeam tree (Carpinus betulus ‘Pendula’), and moved it from one end of the city block to the other. Take a look at this [...]
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Remarkable weeping hemlock
Posted in Miscellaneous, Plant management, Trees, tagged Arboriculture, Carl Cathcart, Plant management, Trees, trunk flare, weeping hemlock on October 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This past summer my good friend, Consulting Arborist Carl Cathcart took me to see an unusual weeping hemlock in a suburb of Boston. He had shown it to me earlier in the spring, when we got to see it from the road. This time, he had gotten permission from the owners to examine the tree close [...]
Boston hemlock
Posted in Miscellaneous, Opportunistic plants, Plant management, Trees, tagged Plant management, tree issues, Volunteer plants on July 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I was on Beacon Hill and spotted this mostly dead hemlock tree, completely swathed in Boston ivy: Perhaps the owners were simply neglecting their courtyard garden, but I like to think that they saw the mature tree’s size as an asset to the place, and decided to use the deadwood as an [...]
To the beech
Posted in Arboriculture, Miscellaneous, Plant management, Trees, tagged Arboriculture, Carl Cathcart, Hartney Greymont, inarching, Jack Alexander, Plant management, tree grafting, tree issues, Trees on May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I took a great class this past January at the Arnold Arboretum. It was called Grafting Techniques for Ornamental Trees, and was taught by Jack Alexander, the Arboretum’s Plant Propagator. Jack, who is not only an extremely talented plantsman but an excellent teacher, taught us how to prepare cuttings, how to make several different kinds [...]
Ancient trees
Posted in Arboriculture, Miscellaneous, Plant management, Trees on April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If we can clone crabapples, maples, and chamaecyparis, why can’t we clone the enormous redwoods that stand as the world’s tallest trees? Well, apparently we can. This article in Sunday’s New York Times (4/10/2011) explains how a group of arborists dedicated to propagating and planting clonal stands of coastal and giant sequoias, using tissue and cuttings [...]
Herbie: the next phase
Posted in Arboriculture, Plant management, Trees, tagged Arboriculture, Herbie the Yarmouth elm, Plant management, tree issues, Trees on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I swung by the site where Herbie, the American Elm in Yarmouth, Maine, had stood for over two centuries. Herbie was taken down last January; to read the tale see this post, and to see photos of Herbie’s stump, click on this link. I hadn’t planned to stop and see the stump — what [...]
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