Buying and Selecting Nursery Stock
Choosing high-quality nursery stock allows trees to establish quickly, grow evenly, and require less maintenance over their lifetime.
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Selecting Quality Nursery Stock
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Using Specifications
When purchasing trees, buyers can use specifications as a clear and enforceable standard to ensure that only high-quality, structurally sound trees are delivered. Specifications describe in detail what constitutes a healthy tree. They also establish the conditions of inspection and time of delivery. By sending the nursery a copy of the attached specifications, buyers can request trees that meet these exact criteria. The specifications also give buyers the right to inspect trees upon arrival and reject any that do not meet this standard.
Key benefits of high quality nursery stock:
higher survivor rates
lower replacement costs
increased canopy cover
How to order a tree
• When you first contact nurseries, send them a list of the species, quantities, and sizes of the trees you want.
• Send the attached specifications right away, because if the nursery doesn't have trees that meet these standards, you won't want to buy from them.
• Even if you don't feel qualified to judge tree quality, this document will still ensure that the nursery delivers higher-quality trees.
Diving deeper
Check out a more comprehensive spec sheet developed by Brian Kempf with supplementary images and illustrations.