Remove the burlap and wire baskets on the root balls once the tree is positioned in the planting hole. Sometimes the tree or shrub may have a loose root ball that would collapse after removing the ...

Spring is the season to install large landscape trees while they are still dormant. Planting trees before leafing out gives root systems a head start in becoming established. Gardeners have three ...

The weight of the root ball compresses and compacts the soil. The tree ends up too far down in ... It’s usually difficult to ...