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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Herbie — what remains
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 [...]
When they say ‘taking place in the trees’, they mean it
Posted in Miscellaneous, Trees, tagged tree houses on February 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This set of images popped up on my Google Reader today, and I just have to share them. Click on the highlighted link to Vulgare, a blog on landscape issues, and take a look at the remarkable Chapel Oak in France. Then take a look at Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Optimist,, to [...]
In memoriam
Posted in Miscellaneous, Plant management, Trees, tagged Dutch Elm disease, environment, Herbie the Yarmouth elm, nature, Plant management, tree issues, tree removal, Trees on January 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I was in Maine last week, and planned to stop in Yarmouth on Monday to watch the removal of Herbie, the champion American Elm (Ulmus americana) that had finally become too compromised to stay standing. For several months, stories about Herbie and his long-time steward, Yarmouth tree warden Frank Knight (at 101 years old, he [...]
Massachusetts Arbor Day of Service
Posted in Massachusetts Arborists Association, Miscellaneous, Pruning, Trees, tagged MAA, Massachusetts Arborists Association, tree issues on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Massachusetts Arborists Association has a new volunteer initiative starting in 2010. They aim to build on the traditional Arbor Day celebration by instituting a statewide volunteer service day on that day, which falls on April 30, 2010. To get the ball rolling, the MAA is inviting anyone to identify potential tree care projects in [...]