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
Posts Tagged ‘planting trees bare root’
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 »
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 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 [...]
Note on older posts
Posted in Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Root-washing, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, circling roots, container plants, Plant management, planting trees bare root, remedial root work, root excavation, tree issues, tree planting on September 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As you may know, this blog started as a series of posts on our other blog, Taking Place. I branched it off that blog to avoid unbalancing the whole endeavor, and began posting on woody plant issues here. I am currently working on copying older posts from Taking Place over to this blog as well [...]
Here’s why to plant bare root
Posted in Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Shrubs, Trees, tagged Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, planting trees bare root, tree issues, tree planting on August 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One reader wrote in with this comment to my last post: “It would be no good to specify bare root unless you were thoroughly acquainted with the land – soil, ledge, utility lines, for example – and spreading roots of other trees.” And my answer, because there’s a lot to it: Actually, bare root is [...]
Baring all
Posted in Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Trees, tagged Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, landscape architecture, Plant management, planting trees bare root, tree issues, tree planting, Trees on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tom Ryan*, my first landscape architecture mentor, and I have discussed the desirability of specifying that the trees and shrubs we design into a site be planted bare root whenever possible. As long as the roots can be kept moist — something now entirely possible with the use of hydrogels — most nursery-grown plants [...]
Bare-root comments and observations
Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Mike Furgal, Plant management, planting trees bare root, root excavation, tree issues, tree planting on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you checking out this blog for the air-tool transplanting posts, you may find it helpful to read the comments on those posts for more information…And if you’re a landscape architect or arborist and have observations, questions, comments, please feel free to submit them in the comment box as well. This technology and [...]
Air tool excavation — London Planes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, landscape architecture, Matt Foti, Mike Furgal, planting trees bare root, root excavation, tree issues, tree planting, Trees on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The project showcased in the last post continued this week, with the bare-root transplanting of five London Plane trees (Platanus x acerifolia) and a mature crabapple. Again, Matthew R. Foti Landscape and Tree Service was the prime arborist on this site in a Boston suburb — but this week the Foti crew was joined by [...]
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