Early spring stuff!!!

Norway spruce loaded for delivery for some Newtown homeowner’s future privacy. We stock tons of Norway spruce because of its trouble-free happy go lucky existence long term in most conditions. Bugs, disease, and extremes of the environment trouble this tree—-NOT. Peetee the awesome nursery dog oversees the goings-on.

I grow some specimen trees like this for multitudes of horticultural reasons. Plus, this format looks a thousand times better than any other growing method. Everything grows better with aeration in the root zone, especially $500 dwarf Japanese maples. Burlapping in the scalding hot summer days doesn’t ever bother trees grown on skids. Extra water drops easily away, there’s air available to each root, and when these trees are sold, I simply unwrap the steel caging, finger-rake the rootless “soil” away from the tree and burlap the rest. Every single root the tree ever had goes with the tree to your house! Zero transplant shock!

Trees, conifers, and specimen shrubs thrive above ground as long as they get food and water. During the last recession, I stopped growing trees like this because it takes so much labor but I’m expanding this method back again. Stuff just performs better this way!

How would you like growing in hot plastic pots? It takes us substantial effort to repot smaller trees into the right size pots, and even more work to put trees on skids- we spare no effort to grow the best trees... they are family! When nursery growers think like plants, everyone wins.

Weeping form of Norway spruce loves my growing method. The deep green foliage tumbles down and flows like water over the various grade changes giving potential buyers an idea how they will look when planted over a stone wall or on a slope. These trees get put in our entrance every morning to keep reckless speeding drivers from performing dangerous high speed u-turns in our driveway. They crash into our gate, drive over trees, destroy signs and irrigation heads. Yesterday some as*ho*e in a Porsche SUV whipped around these beautiful trees so fast he crushed into the last one in the row and sped off. If he was driving more carefully to begin with he wouldn’t have had to turn around in my driveway. Good thing he was driving so fast because if I had caught him..... wouldn’t have been pretty.

I made a delivery last week to a 30-year long customer and saw a tree that really caught my eye- Cornus mas.