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iron contraption around tree

Thousands of dollars were spent on site design and construction, the tree grate, and the vertical iron gizmo just for this one tree. After all this money was spent and trees of the appropriate species chosen, exceptionally poor-quality nursery stock was selected.

Make success happen by involving professional engineers, architects, landscape architects, urban foresters, arborists and horticulturists in design and execution of the project. They need to be involved from the inception of the project through its completion.