This past week I had occasion to pass the same suburban Massachusetts middle school on two days in a row, and on each of those days my eyes goggled at the sight of a new planting on a slope facing the road. The array of brown, grey, and coppery-red foliage — on the trees that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘planting trees bare root’
How not to plant a tree
Posted in Arboriculture, Miscellaneous, Plant management, Roots, Trees, tagged B&B plants, Plant management, planting trees bare root, Roots, tree issues, tree planting, Trees on July 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Root issues repost
Posted in Bare-root transplanting, Miscellaneous, Plant management, Root-washing, Roots, Trees, tagged Arboriculture, B&B plants, circling roots, girdling roots, Plant management, planting trees bare root, remedial root work, root excavation, Roots, tree issues, Trees 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 [...]
Weeping Norway Spruce bare-root transplant
Posted in Air knife, 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, environment, nature, planting trees bare root, remedial root work, root excavation, tree planting, Trees 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 [...]
Update on Picea glauca ‘Conica’ transplant
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, tagged Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, environment, nature, Plant management, planting trees bare root, Sugar maple transplant, tree issues, tree planting, Trees, trunk flare, Wellesley College 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. [...]
Air-tool questions, Part 1
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, Jonathan Bransfield, Matt Foti, Mike Furgal, planting trees bare root, tree issues, tree planting, Trees 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 [...]
A tree is a living organism
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Root-washing, Roots, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Carl Cathcart, Cavicchio Greenhouses, environment, Inc., nature, planting trees bare root, tree issues, tree planting, Trees 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 [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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
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