Strategies for growing | selecting high quality trees

Eric Frei

Probably the best document I have ever read about growing high quality trees from roots to trunk and branches.

The other PDFs covers selection, what to look for, how to plant. I've attached some snippets.

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	NurseryTreeProductionStrategies.pdf (5.10 MB, 62 views)
	Selecting Quality Nursery Stock.pdf (1.65 MB, 80 views)
	Selecting and Planting Advanced Trees.pdf (339.9 KB, 63 views)

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Garry Brockley

That use to be on the wall at the nursery where i bought all my plants in the uk you could almost always get a well formed sapling from them, they are a trade only setup and sell to the surrounding public nurseries i see the crarp they sell in nurseries over here and laugh, they sell the plants that were sold as seconds as top range stock.
any way back on track thats a good pdf ekka! gillmans writings go along those lines if it wasn't actually his.

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Treemo

Seems a little Northern Hemisphere to me, fascinating nonetheless. Got anything aimed at the Australian side of things?

I don't think Proteaceae would enjoy me carving the roots up in four places when removing them from the pot. Nor am I yet to plant a bare root tree.

I did up a quick draft Powerpoint on how we plant on the street the other day, but with photos of it happening, rather than illustrations and probably in more detail than that. I'd post it for all to see but I believe since I did it at work, it remains the domain of my employer.

Seems to work for us, we have a, if I had to guess, 99.5% survival rate with it dropping away wildly when you factor in vandalism and acts of Man. I've often hypothesised that there is a direct correlation between Street Tree health and the ever-growing abundance (Bunnings) of whippersnippers in the hands of untrained laypeople. Oh, and the general rule of thumb that grass clippings must be piled at least 1 metre high around, and in contact with, the trunk of all trees at all times.