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Hemlock root flare excavation

Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, Working Landscape, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »

It has been a while since I’ve written about root flares. I got some photos from my friend Carl Cathcart the other day, showcasing the excavation of a hemlock root flare. This tree is one of a hedge of 7-8′ tall hemlocks planted two years ago. Its owner had noticed that while the hedge wasn’t [...]

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Air tool transplant video

Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Plant management, Working Landscape, tagged , , , , , , on January 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »

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 in Wellesley, MA. 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 [...]

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Air tool posts now at Taking Place In The Trees

Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Plant management, Plants, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This tree has never been bare-rooted, as far as I know (though who could say, at this point?) It lives at Elm Bank, Mass. Hort’s headquarters in Wellesley, MA, and I took these photos at last week’s air-tool workshop there. For those of you still clicking on this site to see air-tool transplant posts, check [...]

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Air tool seminar

Posted in Deb's posts, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Here’s a quick post to alert readers to the Massachusetts Arborists Association Special Seminar and Demonstration on air tool use. A team of four arborists — Mike Furgal, Matt Foti, Rolf Briggs, and Dave Leonard — will be showing how compressed-air tools can be used in arboricultural work (root forensics, bare-root planting, bare-root transplanting, shrub [...]

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Air tool observations

Posted in Deb's posts, Plants, Working Landscape, tagged , , , , , , , on August 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Matt Foti took these photos from last week’s big transplant project, and they illustrate some useful points.

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Bare-root comments

Posted in Deb's posts, Plant management, Plants, tagged , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Air tool excavation — London Planes

Posted in Deb's posts, Plant management, Plants, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »

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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Another air-tool bare-root transplanting

Posted in Deb's posts, Materials, Plant management, Plants, Working Landscape, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Here’s a series of photos from an air-tool transplant project executed last week by a crew from Matthew R. Foti Landscape and Tree Service of Lexington, MA.These guys have been using air tools to bare-root trees for some time now, and they have refined the process pretty skillfully. Shown here are a very large treeform [...]

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Air spade transplanting

Posted in Plant management, Plants, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »

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 workshop at which several trees — a [...]

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Refinement

Posted in Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, Working Landscape, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

No, that’s not a shot of a revolutionary way of planting in pavement — that’s a photo of one of the enormous China Girl hollies being taken to its new home at the property belonging to L. and A., my longtime clients. This holly is a mature plant; in my Air Spade In Action post [...]

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