This past summer my good friend, Consulting Arborist Carl Cathcart took me to see an unusual weeping hemlock in a suburb of Boston. He had shown it to me earlier in the spring, when we got to see it from the road. This time, he had gotten permission from the owners to examine the tree close [...]
Posts Tagged ‘trunk flare’
Remarkable weeping hemlock
Posted in Miscellaneous, Plant management, Trees, tagged Arboriculture, Carl Cathcart, Plant management, Trees, trunk flare, weeping hemlock on October 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Herbie — what remains
Posted in Miscellaneous, Plant management, Trees, tagged champion trees, environment, Herbie the Yarmouth elm, nature, Plant management, root flare, tree issues, Trees, trunk flare on March 9, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday I drove through Yarmouth, Maine, and stopped by the site where Herbie the New England Champion American Elm (Ulmus americana) had lived for over two hundred years before meeting his end this past January (see this post for the story). I wanted to see Herbie’s stump and get a better idea of what 217 [...]
Root flare
Posted in Miscellaneous, Trees, tagged root flare, tree issues, Trees, trunk flare on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Root flare — where the trunk of a tree and its roots meet — is a critical juncture in a tree’s anatomy. Nowadays, trees coming onto the Massachusetts market often have root flares buried in the B&B root ball when they reach a job site for planting. The contractor then has to remove the covering [...]
MAA Elm Bank workshop
Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, tagged air tool use, decompaction, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Massachusetts Horticulture Society, root excavation, root flare, trunk flare on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday the Massachusetts Arborists Association held a day-long workshop at Elm Bank, headquarters for the Massachusetts Horticulture Society in Wellesley, MA. Three arborists — Dave Leonard from Kentucky, Rolf Briggs of Holliston, MA, and Matt Foti of Lexington, MA — spoke about particular root issues; Mike Furgal, from Northborough, MA, discussed the use of air [...]
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