ornamental pruning

I lost all my digital photos a few months back, wish I hadn't. When I'd have multiple days on a single job for pruning, I'd bring my camera with me and get before and after pics of everything. Wish I had some to post up now.

Now who plants too!?
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That stinks, Jeff. I have lost pics before... Very frustrating.

As far as planting, I run a street tree planting program in Providence (PNPP), and we plant between 400-500 street trees each year, and I am reponsible for species selection and siting of every one. It is an insanely complicated adventure (we use between 20-30 species per SEASON), but I love it. I am always experimenting and learning!

-Tom
 
we plant as well! We love it when we are able to plant after a removal.

I would be interested in the best street trees that are being planted up your way....
 
Here's a short list:

London Planetree
Red maple
Sugar maple
American Elm
Hybrid Elms
Katsura
Koelreuteria
Liriodendron
Sophora
Hackberry
Red, Scarlet, English, Pin Oak
Parrotia
Yoshino, sargent, Kwanzan cherry
Amelanchier
Hawthorn
Gleditsia
Malus, and more...
 
Dang! I just trimmed two Hawthorns today. I forgot to take pics.
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My customer likes them to look wild and out of control. I convinced her that we must meet somewhere in the middle. After I pruned them, I called my art work, "Controled Chaos."
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No major pokes in the hand for me, but my groundie got a good one.
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I do almost all of the planting on campus. Spent the last two days planting thirteen 2"-3" caliper Oaks and Elms and two beautiful 3" Southern Magnolia. Large trees look good installed, but they are alot of work. We generally try to plant two trees for every removal, and most years plant more than that. We plant alot of small bare root stuff that is marginal here, so we tend to loose a few as well.
 
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