FREE online courses on Vegetable Gardening - Planting Trees and Shrubs

 

Planting Trees & Shrubs

 

You can get your trees and shrubs in three different forms, and there are different planting methods for each.

 

Here's a side-by-side-by-side comparison of the three forms. These are all at the same stage of growth.

 

Bare Root / Balled and Burlapped / Container Grown

 

The balled and burlapped plant does look the best, the container version's in fair shape, and of course the bare root shrub is still dormant so it doesn't look good. But it costs a third less than the other two types. And if we planted these all right now, they'd all look pretty much the same by next year.