Thank you for a great 2011. Happy Hanukkah, Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year!!!
We will be out of the office from 12/24 to 1/2. We are changing our phone system and during the break you may hear a generic outgoing message. Leave a message and we will be checking in.
You may always Send us an Email. We’re always checking. Peace!
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We are proud to announce that one of our recent projects has been the recipient of an ASLA Honor Award for Residential Design. The Landscape Architect was Reed Hilderbrand and we were the contractors. This distinctive project was done with an intense focus on sensitivity and protection of the habitat. We used untreated, naturally rot-resistant Black Locust timber and native, rough-sawn Eastern Hemlock to deck the boardwalk. Not your everyday project. Congratulations to Reed Hilderbrand and kudos to the owners, who have done something very unique! The West Nile virus has arrived in the Southern Berkshires. A massive mosquito hatch came on the heels of the recent heavy rains and flooding, and the young skeeters are HUNGRY. Keep yourself covered, stay behind screens, in the sun, in a breeze, and use repellents. The warming temp has caused the top of the troposphere to rise. The tropopause is the glass ceiling for thunderheads and as thunderstorms go higher, they can develop larger hailstones, dump more hard rain, give stronger damaging winds (even tornadoes) such as we have had in New England this summer. This is the signal to avoid soil compaction, erosion and carbon loss, use cover crops and mulch to protect the soil year-round, plant windbreaks and buffer zones, try permaculture, have trees pruned for strength, plant diverse species to weather the extremes…. Reduce CO2 emissions every way we can. Heat and high humidity leading to severe storms may become the norm for New England in coming years. But we have to prepare for drought and erratic temperatures also. The trend is toward the extremes world-wide. Check out this site from OSU for more information. Tom Ingersoll will conduct his last pruning class of the spring season. Come on out for an informative and entertaining look at training of shade trees and ornamentals in the landscape. Our latest Newsletter is all about Trees! View it Here.
Valentine’s Day temperatures reached 55 degrees in Great Barrington. Ice and snow melted, mud developed, and then came the winds. This kind of back-and-forth is not great for plants. Large trees expand and contract with changes in temperature, then gusts of wind up to 40-50 MPH pushed things around. Take a careful look around your landscape for things that don’t look right, listen for cracking/splitting, and BE SAFE. Call an arborist!
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