Tree survival skills
Monday, May 4, 2009 - 08:42
in Biology & Nature
URBANA, IL--Consider the cumulative stresses that transplanted trees must endure from the time they are harvested until they become established in a landscape. Multiple stress factors can mean the difference between survival and death for trees. For starters, when "balled-and-burlapped" trees are dug prior to transport, the majority of the root system is often separated from the tree.