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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Posted in Bare-root transplanting, Miscellaneous, Plant management, Root-washing, Roots, Trees, tagged tree issues, root excavation, girdling roots, remedial root work, B&B plants, arboriculture, Plant management, planting trees bare root, Trees, circling roots, Roots on May 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last year I worked on a large mall planting project. A number of trees had to be pulled out to make way for a new parking layout; the islands they had been growing in were removed and paved over, with new islands located in a different configuration. Most of the trees were hauled away by [...]
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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 »
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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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Miscellaneous, Plant management, Trees, tagged champion trees, environment, Herbie the Yarmouth elm, nature, Plant management, root flare, tree issues, Trees, trunk flare on March 9, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday I drove through Yarmouth, Maine, and stopped by the site where Herbie the New England Champion American Elm (Ulmus americana) had lived for over two hundred years before meeting his end this past January (see this post for the story). I wanted to see Herbie’s stump and get a better idea of what 217 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Deborah Howe