{"id":13,"date":"2012-08-15T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/shangri-la\/"},"modified":"2013-03-04T19:36:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:36:41","slug":"shangri-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/shangri-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Shangri La"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of my previous posts I wrote about the highest trees in Toronto.\u00a0 Twenty six of our Hornbeam trees\u00a0were lifted to the 65th floor of the Shangri La Hotel in downtown Toronto.\u00a0 We have since planted them in June as the construction progressed.\u00a0 Now, as the hotel is nearly finished so was the final part of our installation.\u00a0 We had to install some large Sculptured\u00a0Pines to the third floor and the sixth floor.\u00a0 This installation also included installing some large granite rock.\u00a0 Not any rock mind you – this took weeks of preparation and searching southern Ontario’s quarries\u00a0to find the perfect pieces.\u00a0\u00a0Many quarries were searched with the final selection coming out of Havlock Ontario – east of Peterborough. It was not just one trip to the quarry – it was several.\u00a0 It was necessary to place the rock before it left\u00a0and cut it so the pieces would fit in the precise manner required on the the third floor.\u00a0And then there were the trees.\u00a0 They were sourced last fall from a nursery on the west coast.\u00a0 They came to PAO early in the Spring and were healed in the ground and maintained and pruned until the construction of the third and sixth floor were complete.\u00a0 Which was last weekend.\u00a0 Then there was the prep work of the actual installation.\u00a0 These rocks weigh 10,000 lbs – not easy to move.\u00a0So with the coordination of several people, we finally were ready to install.\u00a0 We required an extra large crane for this as the rocks were so heavy.\u00a0 We finally got a permit and were able to close down two lanes of University Avenue for the weekend.\u00a0 The crane was set up and then it was show time.\u00a0 The rocks went up first followed by the trees.\u00a0 Once the trees were up they they then had to be manoeuvred into position.\u00a0 These trees are very valuable and have distinct formations so the placement of them is crucial.\u00a0 Once they are in position they will not be moved again.\u00a0 It was exciting and neat to see it all come together (didn’t need the rain though!).\u00a0 The crane operators were amazing – the coordination between the two of them was tremendous.\u00a0 Think of it -the crane guy (Michael)\u00a0on the ground can’t see a thing on the third floor or\u00a0sixth floor\u00a0– yet he is operating the crane.\u00a0 So the the guy on the third floor (Scott) is directing him literally every inch of the way.\u00a0Pretty spectacular.\u00a0 And of course there are our guys – who just adapt with each obstacle.\u00a0 It doesn’t matter how well you plan things in this industry, there is always something unforeseen.\u00a0 I think the pictures are self explanatory – and there are alot of them – hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n

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In one of my previous posts I wrote about the highest trees in Toronto.\u00a0 Twenty six of our Hornbeam trees\u00a0were lifted to the 65th floor of the Shangri La Hotel in downtown Toronto.\u00a0 We have since planted them in June … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[15,23,17],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-large-trees-2","tag-large-trees","tag-pines","tag-tree-moving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}