06/17/2026
More often than not, we get to live up to our motto; “We’re in the Businesa of Saving Trees” and this was a special one. The old man did not think the red bud tree he and his wife used to sit under could be saved at all. He wanted to know how much to cut it up and haul it away. When I walked to the back yard and examined it, it had keeled over because of the weight of the foliage the root system itself was still intact. It had partially uprooted a couple days before, and I soaked the root zone for 15 minutes with his hose. We finished up our job across the street, and after removing some of the weight, we used one of the limbs to make a strong ‘crutch, and Eric Spencer lifted it back up, not all the way up, but enough for me to place a crutch, cut from the tree itself, underneath the trunk to hold it up. Eric tested it when we raised it into place and it’s solidly in place. I’ll be returning very soon to add rich compost and soil around the root ball that’s partially out of the ground.