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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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Here’s why to plant bare root

Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Plant management, Plants, Questions, What we're thinking, Working Landscape, 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 Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, Plants, What we're thinking, 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 fare [...]

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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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Beech day

Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, tagged , , , , on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It was hot enough to be a real beach day….This was the only beech I saw, though. It was a day for a big air-tool transplant project; three compressors, three guys with air excavating tools, and two 12″ caliper London Plane trees moved bare root. The work will continue through the week — three more [...]

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No photos here

Posted in Deb's posts, Materials, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, Working Landscape, tagged , , , , , , on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

What is a landscape architect doing writing about these methods of tree planting and moving? Well, for one thing, I don’t like to waste woody plants. Planting an ingrown-root tree (or even a healthy one) in a new landscape without attending to the tree’s requirements — for rooting space, for decent soil porosity, for adequate [...]

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Root-washed tree revisited

Posted in Deb's posts, Materials, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »

To continue the story from the previous post (check out the photos on that one): Wednesday, I had to visit Cavicchio’s Greenhouses to tag a tree. Carl and I arranged to meet there, and Carl called to see if Jake Cavicchio could meet us at the little pin oak. We bumped down a back road [...]

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