AS members writing in TCIA mag.

[OTG BOSTON]

Congrats to treeseer on another great article in TCIA magazine. I think some of those pics were taken by Blinky, or maybe I have my usernames screwed up.

I was totally impressed with Pancakes article on why it is important for climbers to attend climbing competitions. I agree with his sentiments whole heartedly. For those of you who have never been to one, GO, ASAP!!!! or better yet get involved! you won't be sorry

 

[Bermie]

Aggghh, so frustrating, I still haven't got July's mag, what did they do, put it on a boat?
:bang:

 

[treeseer]

Thanks otg, yeah that was blinky on camera, the elm is in my pasture.

If I go to boston will I see 75% of the city trees strangling themselves? :taped:

fiona i just emailed my thing to you; must be a slow boat to bermuda.

 

[Sunrise Guy]

Aggghh, so frustrating, I still haven't got July's mag, what did they do, put it on a boat?
:bang:

I had to call 'em yesterday to let them know that I hadn't gotten July, either. Maybe they had a screw-up in the Circulations department.

 

[treeseer]

http://www.tcia.org/PDFs/TCI_Mag_July_07.pdf

 

[OTG BOSTON]

If I go to boston will I see 75% of the city trees strangling themselves? :taped:

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Definately not. Our biggest problem is vandalism

 

[Bermie]

Thanks otg, yeah that was blinky on camera, the elm is in my pasture.

If I go to boston will I see 75% of the city trees strangling themselves? :taped:

fiona i just emailed my thing to you; must be a slow boat to bermuda.

Got the email thanks! I'm sending it on to our nurseries, I would say 95% of landscape material here is containerized....

 

[Pancake]

The complete magazine is online.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Got the email thanks! I'm sending it on to our nurseries, I would say 95% of landscape material here is containerized....

That's because 99% of everything comes by boat. How much easier is it to move containers then B&B?

One thing to say if B&B is problematic, is that recently containerized product is far superior to container grown.

 

[Bermie]

There is NO ball and burlap nursery stock here. Moving containerized material is easy enough.

Imported propagation material is brought in by air (not boat) as bare root cuttings or in rock wool, then grown on, moved from container to container.
A lot of material is propagated locally and very well.
A 1 gallon potted plant can cost from $7.00 to $12.00 depending where you buy it. Next sizes are 3, 5, 10, 15 and 20 gallon containers. A nice palm in a 5gal pot will cost you about $60-$100.
Our biggest nursery uses a soilless potting medium, it all bark and coconut husks and pearlite and stuff, they bring it in by the container from the US. I don't particularly care for it as the plants are soft and the transition to native soil can take a while in some cases.

There was one tree farm, where large stock was grown in the ground then dug up and moved to the site, it did quite well, then the guy in charge moved on, I think its defunct now.

Other than that if you see a tree or palm you like you knock on the door and see if the owner wants to sell it! I bought coconut palms for $100 per foot of clear trunk, so paid $1000 for a 10' palm for one landscape installation. Some people have palms in their gardens that they are willing to sell, but only when they need to, one person called hers, their 'emergency medical fund'!
People grow coconuts in pots for extra cash, $200 for a 3' high seedling is common.
Large mature palm are worth a fortune as all palms MUST be propagated locally. There is a permenant embargo on palms due to risk of disease.