Tree133 Professional Arborists

For many years, I’ve been meaning to remove and replace two declining plums at the front of my house. Finally got started last week by removing the old trees. Sad to see them go, but they’d been declining for years.

Today, we had the whole team out for a planting refresher, installing two Parrotia persica. For the sake of practice with root management, I selected two trees that had been in their pots way too long. Turns out they were balled/burlapped and then put into containers. Lots of good learning around root washing and pruning prior to installation.

It’ll be fun to see how the trees respond after we removed 60% or more of their root mass. It’s pretty late in the spring for such aggressive root pruning, but with attentive care they should be fine.

Recognizing the difference between a tree’s current structure and its natural form is essential to good management decisions.