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Posts Tagged ‘bare-root transplanting’

Root-washing test case

Posted in Materials, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Carl Cathcart, Consulting Arborist and mentor to any number of Massachusetts arborists, sent me an email a couple of months ago. In it, he told about a pin oak (Quercus palustris) that had been sitting, balled and burlapped, in Cavicchio’s Greenhouses, Inc. for a couple of years. Carl, out at the nursery at the time, [...]

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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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Air spade work redux

Posted in Plant management, Plants, Working Landscape, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you have read the last post but are new to this blog you might take a look at this link; it’s my Lawn and Landscape article on the bare-root transplant workshop conducted last summer by arborists Mike Furgal (who developed the method of transplanting specimen trees bare-root, using an air spade) and Matt Foti [...]

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Air tool in action

Posted in Places, Plants, Working Landscape, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This past winter I developed plans for a couple of areas on the property belonging to my longest-standing and wonderfully enthusiastic clients, L. and A. on the North Shore. They have a lovely place on a rocky cliff overlooking Nahant Bay, and they enjoy making it even more beautiful and comfortable each year. They are [...]

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Take a look

Posted in Gristmill, Materials, Plants, tagged , , , , , , on March 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Last August I went to a workshop in Westford, MA, at which two Massachusetts-certified arborists demonstrated how to move larger specimen trees using compressed air.  Mike Furgal, who developed the method about five years ago, and Matt Foti, who hosted the event at his nursery, showed a group of about 100 arborists, landscape contractors, and [...]

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