Hundreds of Potted Bare-Root Trees
Do you know… one large, mature tree can can produce about 270-liters of oxygen a day? That's just nearly half of what the average human needs in a day. Our earth needs trees!
Every year I plant as many trees as possible here at my farm - it's one way I can give back to the environment and help create a cleaner, healthier and more sustainable planet for my grandchildren and for everyone. As you saw in yesterday's post, I recently received the season's first shipment of bare-root tree cuttings. Bare-roots are dug from the ground while dormant and stored without any soil surrounding their roots. And now they will thrive in nutrient-filled composted soil until they can be transplanted in the ground. Earth Day is coming up on April 22nd. I hope you plant a tree or two to celebrate.
Enjoy these photos and short video showing all 700 newly potted bare-roots!
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- Since I plant so many trees I get some that are older and taller for various, more developed gardens and hundreds in the form of bare-root cuttings for hedges or larger group plantings for new allées, groves and in the woodland.
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- Among them, lots of boxwood cuttings. This is ‘Winter Beauty’ Boxwood. It grows three to four feet in height and spread. It’s great for low hedges and borders. This variety has small dark green leaves, spring through fall and then bronze leaves in winter.
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- One of my favorite varieties is Buxus ‘Green Mountain’. It is a vigorous evergreen shrub with bright green foliage that retains good color throughout winter. The upright, naturally cone-shaped habit makes it an excellent candidate for planting free-form or for a sculpted hedge.
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- Boxwood is popular for its versatility in the garden, its foliage, and its year-round greenery. Buxus is a genus of about 70 species in the family Buxaceae. Common names include box or boxwood. The boxes are native to western and southern Europe, southwest, southern and eastern Asia, Africa, Madagascar, northernmost South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
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- This section is for Austrian Pine, Pinus nigra. Also known as European black pine, this tree is a medium to large conifer that is native from central and southeastern Europe to western Asia. It grows 40 to 60 feet tall.
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- It features stiff green needles that are three to six inches long.
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- These Grand Firs are only inches tall now, but in an undisturbed forest, these trees can grow up to 250 feet tall.
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- When mature, the Grand Fir has a conical shape, spreading out to 25 feet. Healthy needles grow to about two inches in length and are shiny green on the upper surface, and silvery-white underneath.
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- These are young dawn redwoods, Metasequoia. I have many of these trees growing and thriving here at the farm. The dawn redwood has feathery, fine-textured needles that are opposite each other and approximately a half-inch long. Don’t confuse them with the bald cypress needles, which grow alternately. These dawn redwood needles will turn shades of red and brown before falling – it is one of the few deciduous conifers.
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- These pots are filled with Blue Rug Junipers – it is the lowest growing and among the slowest growing of junipers. It has a dense, trailing, creeping form, making it an excellent ground cover.
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- The plant itself has soft silver-blue evergreen foliage.
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- American Chestnut hybrids are a cross between Chinese Chestnuts and the native American Chestnuts. They are hardy and yes, the chestnuts are edible. If these are in good condition, they’ll have leaves by summer.
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- Cotoneaster horizontalis, also known as rock spray cotoneaster, is a great to use as a border shrub. It has small green leaves that turn bright orange and red in the fall, and bright red berries after flowering. And look at the branch – they grow in almost a herringbone pattern.
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- Cotoneaster horizontalis is a semi-evergreen deciduous shrub in the family Rosaceae genus, Cotoneaster.
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- I have always felt that bare root cuttings do best when potted up and nurtured for a period of time before being transplanted in their permanent locations. I keep these specimens in fenced in areas at the farm where they can be closely maintained.
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- These newest specimens will remain here for about a year or two until they are planted in the ground.
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- And this is why I keep all the plastic pots – so they can be recycled and repurposed for seedlings. I already have some ideas where these trees will go when they are ready!
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