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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 , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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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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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Air tool transplant challenge — excavate and move

Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Air spade transplanting

Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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The Garden Professors

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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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Honey Locust in the suburbs

Posted in Trees, tagged , , on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Well, this town outside of Boston can’t be considered ‘the country’ these days, but still, there’s plenty of room for a tree to grow. This Gleditsia, unlike the two in the previous post, can stretch its arms and legs, and shows what form and size a Honey Locust really wants to take:

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Note on older posts

Posted in Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Root-washing, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Here’s why to plant bare root

Posted in Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Shrubs, Trees, tagged , , , , , 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 [...]

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Baring all

Posted in Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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