Deep planting of common landscape shrubs and trees at ASHS

Oct 8, 2010

Today Maren Mochizuki shares updates with us from a local research project.

Does planting landscape shrubs and trees below grade affect their growth and aesthetic quality?  Preliminary results on deep planting were presented on Aug. 4 at the ASHS annual conference in Palm Desert, CA.

To view the presentation abstracts, please visit here and here.

For more information on the shrub project, please see this previous post

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Shrub deep planting plot after three years growth (July 2010).