hard to believe there is no planting standard.
Astounding that the BS is 24 pages for $185.
ok sean next question: do green industry organizations in oz go on record as supporting NATSPEC? Here they are involved in writing the standard but you guys seem to trust pioneers to do the work.
in the usa, "Arborists should have the ANSI standard—available from TCIA—in hand when they talk to growers and landscape architects and landscapers about deep planting. When these professionals see with their own eyes that the American Nursery and Landscape Association and the American Society of Landscape Architects are represented in ANSI, they will realize that they don’t have a stem to stand on when they bury trees. The entire green industry agrees that we should always be able to find the trunk flare. |