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Buy Plants This Spring From An Online Garden Center

"Checking Out a Tree Farm, Nursery, or Garden Center can be a fun and peaceful time. Taking a look at all of the plants, shrubs, and trees and visualizing how they will suit your landscaping strategies. But there are some essential things you require to look at before you purchase; otherwise your beautiful plant or tree, that looked so great when you bought it, will turn your landscape into an eyesore.

A True Story:

Nancy loves plants and trees, nature, and wildlife; however she just purchased a brand-new home in a new development that has very little landscaping and no privacy. Spring Time comes and Nancy is thrilled to enhance her landscape. So Nancy goes to her regional garden center to select out some plants and trees. She is so delighted when she shows up; all the plants and trees look so great. Nancy wants instantaneous personal privacy so she chooses the biggest trees they have, but they are too big for her to manage so she has the garden center deliver and plant the trees. She views as the crew at the Garden Center moves her trees off to the side. She cringes as they pull her tree out of the others since she can hear the branches breaking as they get caught on the other trees.

A year goes by and the trees that Nancy had planted just don't look as great as they performed in the garden center. A few of her Spruce Trees have brown branches on the bottom and they look type of yellow. Nancy contacts the garden center to complain, they come out and state that the tree is fine and is just a little stressed. They state it will fill out next year and will look great. ""OK"" Nancy says.

Well, next year comes, and Nancy's Trees do not look any better, but it is still not dead and by this time its guarantee has ended. Year after Year the tree looks to barley hang on. The branches are thinning and slowly the tree dies. Now Nancy wants she had never ever bought those trees. If only Nancy had actually read my post she could have had a tree that will always look as excellent as it did the day she purchased it.

Don't be Nancy!

Here are some things to Think about:

Rootball Size - This is the biggest element of why your tree will suffer down the road. Trees require roots - The more the better! Christmas Trees look excellent when you buy them, but what happens purchase New Years - they pass away. A lot of Garden Centers are selling trees that are very little better than Christmas Trees. It just makes good sense from their point of view. Dirt is extremely heavy and things that are heavy become expensive. They are more expensive to move, plant, and set up. It is cheaper for them to need to replace a tree if it passes away than to offer a tree that is predestined to live. The size of a rootball will inform you how it will look down the roadway. If one garden center is cheaper, do not just compare the tree however compare the roots.

How it is watered - Many Garden Centers water their trees various ways and some do not appear to water them at all. When the rootball has actually been dried, a great deal of damage has currently been done. Make certain the location where you are buying your trees is keeping them watered.

Potted or Balled and Burlapped - Do not be fooled into thinking that if you are purchasing it potted, in some way it is better than balled and burlapped. It is not unusual in the industry for a tree to be removed early in the spring and put in a pot, rather of placed in burlap. All this does is make you think that it was grown in the pot. Make sure to ask the length of time it has been in the pot. If you get a balled and burlapped tree ensure that the burlap and wire basket is tight; if it is loose, root damage will occur when it is moved around.

Guarantee - This is a huge mistaken belief, I have actually changed much of my rivals' trees that apparently had a service warranty, however the tree was not dead - simply 1/2 dead and unsightly - so they do not replace it. Other times the client was told by the garden center that they did not water the tree and they were not going to replace it. While the client may have not provided it the appropriate amount of water at all times, if you get a tree that has a larger root system you have a lot more wiggle space to make errors.

How it is Dealt with - The more a tree is handled the more root damage can take place. The very best is if a tree spade, installed on a truck moves it straight from the field to your backyard. If you can not go that route ensure that they are using the correct devices to plant the trees. Couple of things are worse for a tree than to be dropped, kicked, pulled, and pried; this is what will take place if they are not utilizing the correct devices to plant the tree."