Welcome back to garden ninja and today I'm going to be talking about one of my
favorite things trees! so I'm going to explain today the different options you
have when buying trees for your garden or garden design and there's gonna be
three types that are talked about today and the first is gonna be the good old
trusty bare root which is probably the cheapest and easiest of trees the second
is going to be a root ball tree a little bit more expensive bit harder to plant
and then the third is the container tree super easy the most expensive the three
what gets your instant results so come on let's get cracking!
So here we have an example of a bare root tree this is a Gleditsia sunburst
great trees for exposed areas poor soil to basically grow anywhere they're quite
vigorous so you want to cut the protective bag off this bare root and
show you exactly what a bare root tree looks like in comparison to the root ball
now bare roots are lifted during the late autumn to early winter when the
trees are dormant so you'll notice that everywhere looks really glib and wet and
that's because it's winter so this is the bare root and you can literally see
all the roots the tap roots and the fibrous roots here had most of the soil
apart from that bit of bark and taken off so nice we kept moist and then you
get them in as quickly as you can but here we have some really good examples
of root ball trees they're a root ball tree has been grown in the ground and
then usually a machine mechanically cuts through under the roots and lift it
off as a ball most of the time for high quality root ball it will have been done a
number of times because it encourages more vigorous roots to grow it's finally
lifted for the last time then wrapped in the Hessian and then a wire mesh keeps
all that soil around the roots so it's got minimal disturbance they are more
expensive than bare roots because they're a lot heavier you can usually get some
more mature trees and shrubs in a root ball than you can in a bare root also the
success rates with root balls are much higher than bare roots but again it's all
down to the preparation and planting the sooner you can get them in to higher the
chance of success and here's a good example of a container grown tree so
they come in a pot or container that they've been in for maybe a matter of
months or even years in some cases and they have really fibrous roots so the
roots have been able to really grow vigorously in that pot it means that
with container growing trees you can get all sorts of different shapes and
varieties these are a pleached tree so these are grown on
a frame and have been grown to look a bit like either a square or a rectangle
you can get huge containers with fully form trees that might be 12 15 even 20
meters high so you've got mass variety with container grown trees because it
takes so long to grow they're very expensive but it does mean that if
you're doing a garden design you can get them in and get instant effect whether
you're planting a container root ball of bare-root tree you usually need to make
sure that the hole you're digging it for is at least one and a half times the
width of the pots will either keep it at the same depth as the root ball, pot or
bare root and don't be tempted to dig it in any deeper because this can harm and
damage the tree especially if it's a grafted tree always make sure that you
stake the tree adequately and use a tree tag that isn't going to rub against the
stem of the tree and damaging so there we have it my super easy
guide to bare roots root balls and container grown trees if you've liked
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