Unusual Specimen Tree Sourcing
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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Client: Private Garden
Location: Wiltshire
Supplies Contractor: Practicality Brown Ltd.
Our client was looking for an unusual specimen tree to take
pride of place in his beautiful cottage garden. He asked us to find
and plant a 'Fagus engleriana', a rare and graceful beech of medium
size with slender glucose, sea-green foliage hanging from
horizontal branches.
We located a semi mature specimen tree on
a nursery in South-West Germany, one of our regular suppliers.
There were 30 specimens available to choose from, in sizes between
7-9 meters in height with crown spread of 2-3 meters and girths
of 50-60cm.
Our client wanted the specimen tree to have a short clear
stem of approximately 1.2 meters, so we travelled to the nursery,
selected a suitable tree and carefully pruned off the lower
branches ourselves.
The branches were tied in, the tree lifted out of the ground
and root balled with hessian and wire netting, then transported by
lorry to site in the UK.
The tree weight was 1.6 ton so we used a telescopic
telehandler machine to safely unload and lift this tree into
position.
What was a bare section of lawn now had a specimen tree. Our
client was so delighted with his tree that he asked us to supply
and plant another of the same. He explained that he liked the idea
of creating 'visual echoe's' within his garden, and he was right,
we repeated the project and the result was simply
stunning.
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