In this New York Times article, Tom Cox from Environmental Design, Inc., a Davey partner, shares the process of transplanting and installing mature trees and explains why the practice is growing in popularity among wealthy Americans.
Imagine listing a chair and moving it to a corner in the living room. Now imagine that the chair is 50 feet tall and weighs 100 tons. That, or something very like that, is the daily task of specialized workers who uproot and replant trees that may have been saplings when Ronald Reagan was a child.
"Every day, that's what we do," said Tom Cox, a co-founder of Environmental Design, a company in Texas that sources and transplants some of the largest and heaviest trees in the world. "People who can afford it want the biggest, and they want the best in everything, and they want it now."
The commerce in old trees is certainly not new. But as the billionaire class rapidly grows and the net worth of the richest Americans soars at unprecedented rates, the mature tree business is booming, according to experts in this once-niche industry.
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