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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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 [...]
What’s wrong with these pictures?
Posted in Miscellaneous, Plant management, Roots, Trees, tagged Plant management, root mass, Roots, tree issues, Trees on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Say you’re a growing country club in a nicely-treed community, and you need to enlarge your parking lot. And perhaps you want to lower its grade. The lot has some mature oak trees in it, and they add a certain je ne sais quoi to the scene, so you decide to save the trees by [...]
Girdling roots
Posted in Plant management, Trees, tagged circling roots, girdling roots, Plant management, remedial root work on October 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was shuffling through some photos today, hunting for an illustration of girdling roots, thinking that I’d use one of a myriad of pix I have of subgrade snarlups. But this picture popped up, and it seemed useful to show how a root that seems insignificant in infancy can grow to have an adverse effect [...]
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 [...]
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