Growing Gold

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Nursery Best Practices

Resources for raising trees from seed to quality standards

Planning and Tree Selection

Resources for choosing the right tree for your site and city

Buying and Inspecting

Resources for purchasing high quality nursery stock

Planting

Resources for planting trees for long-term success

Growing and Caring

Resources for growing and caring for a tree through its life cycle

Pruning

Resources for pruning a tree at any stage of life

Video Library

View our full library of Growing Gold Videos here.

Access the best practice for growing, planting, and managing trees in a convenient, illustrated, one-page document. Print out the cue cards as an on-the-ground guides to promote more successful trees.

We currently have cards in English and Spanish for:

  • Nursery tree quality

  • Planting

  • Root management

  • Young tree pruning

Cue Cards

Details and Specifications

Open source, free and editable details and specifications for for landscape architects, engineers, architects, contractors, urban foresters, arborists, municipalities and state agencies developed by Dr. Ed Gilman, Jim Urban, Brian Kempf, and Tyson Caroll of the Urban Tree Foundation.

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