Irrigating a Green City with Recycled Water
Irrigating urban landscape with recycled water: the constituents that clog drip systems, the testing and design standards that keep application even, and the nutrition fertigation must supply.
Irrigating urban landscape with recycled water: the constituents that clog drip systems, the testing and design standards that keep application even, and the nutrition fertigation must supply.
Washing, cool storage, careful packing and an unbroken cool chain: the bare-root method that moves plants in volume across borders with no soil-borne quarantine risk.
How a hero tree crosses an ocean: soil-less root balls raised on gravel mounds, wrapped crowns, and out-of-gauge specimens craned onto ships, documented photograph by photograph.
A step-by-step field record of lifting a mature tree: the root ball marked at one tenth of caliper, hessian and wire caging, crown binding, craning and staking, in fifteen documented...
Decomposed granite berm cores, perforated subsoil drainage, two metres of topsoil and J-channels: nine kilometres of engineered ground delivered through a wet season.
Why the Canary Island Date Palm earned its own export procedure: multi-tonne root balls, a single irreplaceable growing point and establishment stakes measured per specimen.
The working export method behind a landmark Dubai hotel tender: sourcing across five countries, transpiration control, soil-less root balls and CIF Jebel Ali delivery.
Annotated field photographs from the team's tree-lifting operations, including the one handwritten rule that prevents more losses than any other: cross the sling under the root ball.