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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Hemlock root flare excavation
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, Working Landscape, tagged air spade, Carl Cathcart, innovative arboriculture, landscape architecture, Matt Foti, Plant management, Plants, root excavation, root flare, tree planting, trees on June 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Comparison
Posted in Gristmill, Plants, tagged root excavation, root flare, stressed trees, tree planting, trees, trunk injury on April 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To avoid lengthening that last post any more, I’m posting a couple more photos of trees with buried root flares here. These are pear trees; in the first photo, you can see moss growing on the trunk just above what had been the root ball grade when the tree was planted. Beside the fact that [...]
Buried alive
Posted in Gristmill, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged root excavation, root flare, tree planting, trees on April 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It just dawned on me that I haven’t written yet about something that I’ve seen more and more — on virtually all my projects for the last several years, in fact — with new trees being planted in the landscape. It’s this: Trees coming in from the growers these days (at least here on [...]
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