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How to Choose Quality Plants at a Nursery Or Garden Center

"Visiting a Tree Farm, Nursery, or Garden Center can be an enjoyable and relaxing time. Taking a look at all of the plants, shrubs, and trees and imagining how they will suit your landscaping plans. However there are some crucial things you need to take a look at before you buy; otherwise your gorgeous plant or tree, that looked so excellent when you purchased it, will turn your landscape into an eyesore.

A True Story:

Nancy loves plants and trees, nature, and wildlife; but she just purchased a brand-new home in a brand-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 choose some plants and trees. She is so delighted when she arrives; all the plants and trees look so great. Nancy wants immediate personal privacy so she chooses the greatest trees they have, but they are too big for her to handle so she has the garden center provide and plant the trees. She views as the team at the Garden Center moves her trees off to the side. She cringes as they pull her tree out of the others due to the fact that she can hear the branches breaking as they get captured on the other trees.

A year goes by and the trees that Nancy had actually planted just do not look as good as they carried out in the garden center. A few of her Spruce Trees have brown branches on the bottom and they look sort of yellow. Nancy contacts the garden center to complain, they come out and state that the tree is fine and is simply a little stressed. They state it will submit next year and will look fantastic. ""OK"" Nancy says.

Well, next year comes, and Nancy's Trees do not look any much better, however it is still not dead and by this time its warranty has ended. Every year the tree aims to barley hang on. The branches are thinning and slowly the tree passes away. Now Nancy wishes she had never bought those trees. If just Nancy had read my post she might have had a tree that will constantly look as great as it did the day she purchased it.

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Do not be Nancy!

Here are some things to Think about:

Rootball Size - This is the greatest element of why your tree will suffer down the road. Trees need roots - The more the better! Christmas Trees look great when you buy them, however what takes place purchase New Years - they pass away. A lot of Garden Centers are selling trees that are not much better than Christmas Trees. It just makes sense from their viewpoint. Dirt is very heavy and things that are heavy become expensive. They are more costly to move, plant, and set up. It is more affordable for them to need to replace a tree if it dies than to sell a tree that is destined to live. The size of a rootball will tell you how it will look down the road. If one garden center is cheaper, do not simply compare the tree however compare the roots.

How it is watered - Numerous Garden Centers water their trees various ways and some don't seem to water them at all. As soon as the rootball has been dried, a lot of damage has actually already been done. Make sure the place where you are purchasing your trees is keeping them watered.

Potted or Balled and Burlapped - Do not be fooled into believing that if you are purchasing it potted, in some way it is much better than balled and burlapped. It is not unusual in the industry for a tree to be dug out early in the spring and put in a pot, instead of positioned in burlap. All this does is make you think that it was grown in the pot. Be sure to ask the length of time it has actually 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.

Warranty - This is a huge misconception, I have actually changed many of my rivals' trees that apparently had a warranty, but the tree was not dead - just 1/2 dead and unsightly - so they do not change it. Other times the customer was told by the garden center that they did not water the tree and they were not going to change it. While the customer might have not given it the correct 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 managed the more root damage can happen. The very best is if a tree spade, mounted on a truck moves it directly from the field to your lawn. If you can not go that route make certain 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 occur if they are not using the proper equipment to plant the tree."

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