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 [...]
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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 »
Honey Locusts in the city
Posted in Plant management, Shrubs, Trees, tagged honey locust, Plant management, Trees on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was recently on Newbury Street in Boston. Turning away from the nifty pay-for-parking machine (these things have replaced meters on the street, and they couldn’t be more convenient, or more helpful for reducing street furniture clutter), I spotted this valiant little Gleditsia, working hard to stay alive: A little way down the street was [...]
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 [...]