This spring, at the Garden Fair, we moved a mature, twelve year old pine from the plant nursery at the State Arboretum to fill in a gap in the conifer border surrounding the Arboretum.
1. First we dig a man-sized hole where we want to plant the fully grown tree. We can move tree that are up to fifty feet tall.
2. Then we use the tree spade to dig the pine, root ball and tree, from the plant nursery.
3. Finally, we carefully place the tree in the first hole dug where we want the tree to reside.
We did this as part of a live demonstration for the participants for the Garden Fair. This spring we moved two trees from the dense tree nursery at the Arboretum into a permanent location on the Aboretum grounds.
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Blandy Experimental Farm is a 700-acre University of Virginia research facility situated in the northern Shenandoah Valley, about 10 miles east of Winchester and 60 miles west of Washington, D.C. Blandy Experimental Farm is also the home of the State Arboretum of Virginia, displaying more than 8,000 trees and woody shrubs. The collections include a third of the world’s pine species, the Virginia Native Plant Trail, the Boxwood Memorial Garden, a spectacular grove of more than 300 ginkgo trees, an herb garden featuring culinary, medicinal and ornamental herbs. and much more.
