Homeowners periodically need to transplant trees within the yard. Often a tree that requires transplanting was originally planted with too little thought given to its mature size. Projecting that a tiny spruce seedling will one day have branches sweeping the ground 4 meters in all directions from the trunk can be very difficult. Unfortunately, we often don't recognize that a tree is destined to out-grow its space until it has become too large to successfully transplant...read more.

It wasn't too long ago that real estate developers and landscape architects had to rely on small, easily handled trees for their landscaping requirements -- trees that could take years to assume the finished look the designers had in mind at the project's start.
However, today that's not the case...read more.

Wilmington- Paving the way for new buildings and infrastructure at UNCW means the relocation of some of the university’s longleaf pines and majestic oaks, assuring the preservation and replanting of all tree species.Over the next 6 weeks, 137 trees will be relocated from building sites...read more.

Nothing can grace a yard like well-established trees, but if you're starting with saplings, it can take a generation or more for your trees to reach full bloom. Of course, you'll enjoy the benefits of maturing trees along the way, but it can still be a long wait for real summer shade and the balanced visual heft your landscaping needs...read more.

Staking or guying newly-transplanted tree is a common landscape practice. While this technique is sometimes called for, many times it is unnecessary. Small trees up to two inches in diameter rarely require staking, while larger plants may or may not require staking...read more.

When 1962 MSU alumnus Peter Secchia read an article last year about students donating a tree to the university, it made him reminisce about his days on campus. 
Secchia, a financial contributor to the Student Academic Center and the new addition to Breslin Students Event Center, thought it would be fitting to donate a tree on Arbor Day...read more.

Tree Value, Health and Life Span - 
Shade trees add to the value of residential and commercial properties. During construction, established, healthy trees can be preserved with little effort or expense. Many trees are valuable enough to justify the extra concern. Have a city forester, licensed arborist or certified tree appraiser evaluate every tree to see if preservation is worthwhile. Consider location, present size, future size, species, vigor, cost of preservation, and removal cost. Recognize that it is impossible to save every tree. Visualize the future landscape when evaluating trees for preservation. If plans call for preserving existing trees near buildings or in landscapes, the trees should be sufficiently healthy to justify preservation. Some large, mature trees are not structurally sound or in good enough...read more.

BLUFFTON: Many pull together to move town's first Christmas tree. 
It was weather fit only for ducks and fish and, well, the 30-foot-tall red cedar being moved from its home on Calhoun Street to the front of Bluffton Town Hall. The tree -- the town's original, official Christmas tree -- was moved from its former home, where its owners plan to build a new business, to the Town Hall in the rain Thursday morning. A giant tree spade dug swiftly under it, plucked it out of the ground, and trucked it across town to the cheers of a trio of well-wishers who showed up to watch...read more.

A 15-foot live oak that has just taken a ride in a tree spade needs a big drink of water. “About 120 gallons,” said Charles Varah, who represents the Pasold family, co-developers at University Park. “We get water to the trees as soon as they’re popped in the ground.” In the last four years, University Park has saved about 1,800 trees by transplanting them. Many are transplanted within the 1,200-acre development on the Manatee County side of University Parkway. University Park was able to transplant more than 200 trees from nearby projects...read more.

Tree spading is a common method for moving and transplanting large trees from one site to another. The following are some reasons for transplanting large trees vs. younger, smaller trees are...read more.

It’s been only a generation – maybe 30 years or so – that the tree spade has been around. In that time, it has all but put an end to the old-fashioned hand or back-hoe dug procedure. However, as a “technology” (if we want to go that far in its description), the advent of the tree spade has made contributions not only to arborists who own them but also to the trees they transplant...read more.

Before the late 1980’s the Eastern Hemlock was a very popular tree making up a large percentage of our landscapes. One of our native evergreens, they had thrived in our green belts along the river parkways and were utilized for a variety of landscapes. Before the late 1980’s they could be infested with two varieties of scale and mites, but these usually were not enough to severely impact the trees health. Then along came the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid...read more.