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The Continuing Evolution of Tree Installation Specifications - Wire Basket Manipulation and Tree Stabalization

This is a publication on the tree installation specifications in urban settings.

Most landscape tree installation specifications include as one of their components a requirement of some form of tree stabilization or support. In addition, if the trees were field grown and when dug, their root balls placed in wire baskets, there may also be a recommendation or requirement relative to alteration or removal of the wirebasket. These two practices are a source of continuing debate and controversy within the green industry, with nurserymen, landscape designers and architects, landscape contractors and managers, and arborists often in heated disagreement about what should be done and what is best for our trees.

Authors
S. Floyd, B. L. Appleton, C. Beatty
Date Published
December 2004
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia Beach, VA
Resource Type
Information/Research Summary
Resource Format
Booklet
Funding Source
USDA FS (NUCFAC Recommended)
Sub-Topics
Planting, Urban Forest Management
State(s)/Region(s)
National
Indexed By
MWCU&CF

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