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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A tree is not a carrot
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, environment, Matt Foti, nature, Plant management, planting trees bare root, root excavation, Roots, tree planting, Trees on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
London Plane transplant video
Posted in Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Trees, 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 [...]
Air tool transplant video
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, B&B plants, Bare-root transplanting, Matt Foti, Mike Furgal, Plant management, planting trees bare root, tree planting, Trees on January 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I just got a rough cut today of the video, shot last summer, of the moving of a very large (about 14″ caliper, 30′ height) London Plane Tree. It’s taken a while to edit several hours of footage down to a half an hour, but it’s about done, and in the next few weeks I [...]
Air-tool transplant of a beech tree
Posted in Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, tagged Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, planting trees bare root, tree planting, Trees on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I was lucky enough to see the loading, unloading, and half the planting of an 18″ caliper European beech tree. The tree had been air-tool excavated, and was being moved over state highways to its new home at the residence of a former client of mine. Here’s what the tree and its immense [...]
Air-tool transplant: Norway Spruce Part 2
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, planting trees bare root, root flare, tree issues, tree planting, Trees, trunk flare on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To continue yesterday’s post on the bare-root transplanting of a Norway spruce at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA: Project site: The Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA Project manager: Sonia Baerhuk Project crew: Rolando Ortega, Mynor Tobar, Santo Masciari
Air-tool transplant: Norway Spruce, Part 1
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, MAA, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Perkins School for the Blind, Plant management, planting trees bare root, root excavation, tree issues, tree planting, Trees, trunk flare on November 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Massachusetts Arborists Assocation bare-root workshops — one in August 2008, and one in August 2009 — have been spreading word through the Commonwealth about the benefits of air-tool tree transplanting, and word is travelling throughout Massachusetts horticulture circles now. A couple of weeks ago I was chatting with Kristen DeSouza, one of the horticulturists [...]
Air tool transplant challenge — excavate and move
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Mike Furgal, Plant management, tree planting, Trees on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mike Furgal sent me photos of an 8″ caliper Weeping White Pine that he moved a couple of weeks ago, remarking that this tree, though relatively small, was the most challenging tree he’s moved bare-root. The tree was situated in a small berm next to a house and a driveway, and shared the bed with a [...]
Air spade transplanting
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Matt Foti, Mike Furgal, planting trees bare root, remedial root work, tree issues, tree planting, Trees on October 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Posted on Taking Place on July 1, 2009: A few posts back I mentioned my February 2009 article in Lawn and Landscape Magazine on bare-root tree transplanting using an air spade. That article was preceded by my December 1, 2008 article in American Nurseryman, in which news of the technique debuted. Both articles describe the [...]
Root washing in Sudbury
Posted in Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Root-washing, Trees, tagged Arboriculture, B&B plants, Bare-root transplanting, Carl Cathcart, planting trees bare root, remedial root work, tree issues, Trees on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the fall of 2008 Carl Cathcart persuaded Cavicchio’s Greenhouses to wash the roots on a stressed B&B Quercus rubra (Red Oak), and to plant it in a spot where it might be able to settle in. Carl sent me photos of the root-washing process, which I posted on Taking Place last summer. He and [...]
The Garden Professors
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, circling roots, environment, gardening, nature, Plant management, planting trees bare root, remedial root work, root excavation, root flare, tree issues, tree planting, trunk flare on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been interested in the issues on this blog, you might well want to look into another blog, this one written by four horticulture professors. They’re each based somewhere different — Washington State, Virginia, Michigan, and Minnesota — and they write with humor and expertise about plants and plant issues. The Garden Professors started [...]
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