Description:
Tree quality and proper planting are key elements influencing survival, establishment, long-term health, and maintenance needs. This presentation will define ‘quality’ as it relates to trees and will focus on the steps necessary to produce, identify, and plant high-quality trees. Myths and realities of tree care and planting are reviewed including tree fertilization, proper methods of staking and guying, and the best approaches for pruning young trees to encourage proper development.
You will learn what a high-quality tree is and how to select them at the nursery or on site, how high-quality trees are grown at the wholesale level, and why high-quality trees are so difficult to locate in most markets. We will also discuss how to draft and enforce planting specifications, evaluate the condition of root systems and branching structure to ensure that you purchase and receive high-quality plants, and how to interpret industry standards and best management practices.
This course is designed for landscape business owners and supervisors, landscape architects, arborists, people who plant trees, and others who are responsible for signing and fulfilling planting contracts.
This course has been approved to carry 6 CEUs for ISA certified arborists and municipal specialists (S=2, P=2, M=2) and has been submitted for LA CES credits for landscape architects.
Registration:
https://experience.morrisarboretum.org/Info.aspx?EventID=25