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 1 Shirotae cherry tree pruning 50 foot wide Mt. Fuji flowering cherry tree pruning - Wilsonville |  2 Moss Rock feature Small pond with several falls - Central Point, Oregon. Scroll to the VIDEO in this same album. |  3 Tigard design Part of a landscape design and planting. Grasses are blue Fescue and blue oat grass |
 4 Beaverton Bare dirt prior to planning |  5 Digital imaging This is a digital concept prior to drafting. Experimenting with the computer |  6 Wilsonville Quartzite path, planting, small pondless water feature |
 7 Japanese maple pruning That nice looking lawn is fake. We don\'t install artificial turf, but thought it was worth noting |  8 Topiary pine tree Pruning - same yard |  9 Pruning of maples Another view. Just a small pruning project for several Japanese mpales and vine maples |
 10 Pondless feature Same water feature close-up |  11 Water feature Very simple. Preform pond shell, hollow fill material, elevated drilled rock |  12 Water feature Rock border and screen to support rock covering |
 13 Water feature Finished surface with small round rock layer |  14 Japanese maple These trees look much better lightly thinned from the inside |  15 Beaverton Design Same patch of soil as the next frame, 7 years later. |
 16 Beaverton Planting Prep Summer 2003 - Same yard as in adjacent frames. Large pile of soil blend. |  17 Beaverton Planting Summer 2008 - Same yard as last frame - same spot |  18 Beaverton Design Same yard as last few frames, but close to house. Bubbling rock, shrubs, grasses |
 19 Miscanthus Green in summer - tidy plant |  20 Miscanthus Early winter: golden. Small trees mountain hemlock planting. |  21 Miscanthus Early autumn - mauve seed stalks. Red is Nandina planting |
 22 1 gallon plants Ferns and Nandina on the way to get planted in back |  23 Lake Oswego, Oregon Removing one stem growing against the house - Himalayan birch |  24 Smoke Tree: Cotinus A Smoke Tree can become a nicer looking tree, than a topped or reduced shrub. |
 25 Decaying wall Before: old wood steps and retaining wall decaying: disintegrating |  26 Wall project Removal of old wood, contour earth. Very few small roots were pruned |  27 Block wall New manor stone block wall. Steps removed. Ready for barkdust |
 28 Seminar Portland Yard Garden & Patio Show Powerpoint presentation on Tree Care |  29 Seminar Portland yard show - another year. |  30 Ivy detailing Long reach pruners to shape ivy on fireplace brick |
 31 Planting Fine crushed gravel path. New Zealand flax is the burgundy leaves. |  32 Basic box step Treated wood steps filled with crushed gravel in wooded backyard. Green leaves are Hosta |  33 Planter box Basic planter box with copper cap accents |
 34 Part of new parking lot Small bed with remnant pine left by excavating contractor |  35 New parking area bed Remarkable what 3 Nandina, barkdust and some decorative rock can add |  36 Drainage Routing solid drain line through higher ground in lawn |
 37 Backfill drain line Tamping backfill over "solid" drain line. This section moves water - not gathers |  38 Bee on flower. Just happen to like this photo. No special point. |  39 Basalt steps Stacking flat topped basalt for steps up a hill which will be mass planted with small plants |
 40 Aerate / drainage Boring with auger to allow water to pass through upper soil compaction |  41 Paver driveway section Replaced busted concrete driveway section with pavers. Matched home\'s red brick front wall |  42 Training apple tree No need to remove all sprouts. Some can be converted to fruit producing spurs |
 43 Fruit spur Another sprout on the same tree 2 years later. Already fruit pruducing. |  44 Liberty apple In a few years. Liberty apple is a fine addition of summer landscape color |  45 Landscape design Will design anywhere in Oregon. Brought computer and draft board to Nehalem Bay for Seaside, Oregon condominium design project |
 46 Hand draft design Design plan for a front yard in Beaverton |  47 Topiary This was a yearly topiary pruning project in Portland for Dhillon Engineers |  48 Walnut What a way to turn a tree into a piece of junk with topping, boards and nails |
 49 Walnut Finally, 3 hours later - the road to improvement via pruning correction |  50 Walnut 2 years later. Getting better, but not quite done. Just a little thinning and pruning away from the gutter now |  51 Root pruning Root barrier panels can be inserted in the ground to protect concrete or hinder invading roots of trees |
 52 Tree slated for removal When people postpone corrective pruning, the entire tree can be lost. This problem began the day it was planted |  53 Another sweet gum Similar to the last image. Another neglected sweet gum diced up. Lack of pruning invited loss from a storm. Was called-in long distance on this one - go U-haul. |  54 Poor soil equals lean Aerating soil around roots, and adding mycorrhizal fungi: symbiotically good for trees |
 55 Girdling Just getting ready to remove this tree. This is why twine should not be left on trees |  56 Bracing small tree A small cable brace to support a weak branch union below, on a silk tree |  57 Pine pitch moth If you have shore pine trees, ask us about pine pitch moths and the larvae - consulting work |
 58 Protect trunks Young tree trunks should be protected from sun at planting time to prevent sunburn |  59 Small falls Part of a bigger water feature design. This is grey basalt. |  60 Water feature Another part of the same water feature. Red tips are Japanese blood grass. Dark red is Japanese maple |
 61 Pondless water feature Small pondless feature. Very simple and affordable |  62 Cutting flagstone Diamond blade to cut stone for small pond perimeter |  63 Edge of small pond Flat quartzite covering a preform liner and a fountain head with small pump provide another economical water feature |
 64 Hillsboro Before Slated for a landscape design plan. This is before the front yard was stripped bare |  65 Same yard And this is about 10 days after the old worn yard was hauled to become compost |  66 Merkel |
 67 Entry area bed Bland leaf-catcher entry area shrub bed |  68 Same entry Leaves blow right off this crushed quartzite. Blue fescue will quadruple size. |  69 Play & garden area install Sand box, edging, slate flagstone, crushed gravel, variegated boxwood |
 70 Before Small renovation. Beginning of day one. |  71 Renovation Same yard: end of day two. 12 hour project |  72 Large Stump Grinder Grinding prior to adding soil ammendments and planting |
 73 Lawn Crossing Plywood prevents soil compaction when rolling wheelbarrows over lawns |  74 Same house A few of some 7.5 tons split basalt for a 170\' long pathway |  75 Broken Pine This is why when we plant trees, weak limbs are removed while pencil diameter, not 5" diameter and wasted |
 76 Hornbeam Trees New planting. This was a play area, so we mulched with sand rather than bark |  77 Leaning birch removal Help from Roots and Shoots tree service at one of our projects |  78 Bird feeder Made from a birch tree by a bird feeder company, with a birch we removed |
 79 Hiking stick A hiking stick made from a corkscrew willow limb removed from a pruning project |  80 Cup cutter Golf greens cup cutter is an optional tool for soil sampling |  81 Mario Vaden Organizing is virtually a hobby at the residential office |
 82 Japanese Maple WINTER: Neglected Japanese Maple before - loaded with deadwood and excess twigs |  83 Japanese Maple Later in the day after thinning. There were about 6 of these - Lake Oswego, Oregon. Ladder is 10\' tall |  84 Japanese Maple Close-up look at one of the same Japanese Maples |
 85 Scarlet Runner Beans Here is the top of a bunch of scarlet runner beans growing on a 14\' teepee of bamboo poles - nice flowers |  86 Wood steps Simple solution for steps. Treated wood box steps filled with crushed gravel |  87 Felling Noble Fir Removal of a dead Noble Fir in Sherwood, Oregon |
 88 Koi in pond If you want Koi - you should know more about them than your pond installer |  89 Plants Lily, mountain hemlock and New Zealand flax foliage |  90 Moonglow juniper Two shearings over the period of a year, formed this blue column |
 91 Dog ramp A ramp for smaller dogs to run from the deck to the upper yard terrace lawn |  92 Ramp for small dogs Split basalt flagstone is one option to retain soil from shifting |  93 Arborist removing tree Removal of a sweetgum tree loaded with structural weakness: Beaverton. Roots and Shoots. |
 94 Pondless Waterf eature Small pondless water feature. 40" tall 600 lb. core drilled rock. Beaverton. |  95 Pots Ceramic pots have endless possiblities to add variety and color |  96 Pruning birch Pruning a Himalayan white birch to raise it 8\' over sidewalk for code clearance |
 97 Orange lilies Orange lilies by boulder, crimson pygmy barberry and wooly thyme ground cover |  98 Pinks Pinks are a Dianthus - basically, small carnations |  99 Prune Dogwood Simple task - pruning. Liked the photo of this nifty garden house next to a dogwood tree that we pruned back from the roof |
  100VIDEO: Bloomington, Indiana July 2008, Mario Vaden visited Indiana arborist Douglas Fowler. |  101 Maple Seed Art An older customer, Violet Frost, made this artwork, by using wings off collected maple seeds, and painting them. |  102 Port Orford Cedar Before: blocking view from the home |
 103 Port Orford Cedar Same trees. Gained 500 sq. ft. of yard and view |  104 Willow Interesting natural graft allowed to remain in a corkscrew willow |  105 Diseased Japanese maple Japanese maple dying from Verticillium. Likely made worse by pond liner laid over roots to trunk - not our pond install |
 106 Maple removed Had to remove maple. Suggested planting next tree farther away, and different species |  107 Weeping white pine Weeping pine neglected for a while. Found wires inside embedded in bark |  108 Weeping pine Moderately thinned weeping pine. Routine pruning would allow some extra canopy, and controlled |
 109 Fasciation on Flowering Cherry Abnormal twig development. Not a crisis when occassional fasciated twigs occur. |  110 Flowering plum Weak included bark is the dark areas. The cap is on a horizontal cut. This included bark is from insufficient pruning |  111 Leyland cypress - 21 years 45\' wide canopy already! Not a good small area hedge tree |
 112 Tree in deck Don\'t wait until the trunk grows into wood. |  113 Tree in deck / same Cut away wood to allow room for growth. |  114 Sunburn damage Sunburn damage - tissue burned, died and peeled off the sunset side of this ash tree. Safety removal by child\'s play area |
 115 Oregon Landscape Board Last term on Oregon Landscape Contractors Board. This meeting held at Grants Pass in 2005 |  116 Pre-existing pond Not our design. Did some erosion control, found water spilling over liner in 8 different spots |  117 Troubleshooting pond Not our install. Reduced water loss in 9 different spots |
 118VIDEO - Water Feature VIDEO: Moss Rock stream and waterfalls. Central Point, Oregon | ||