Beginning in the spring of 2021 we shifted our production strategy to planting all field grown stock in fabric growbags. There are multiple advantages to growbags, including year-round harvest, reduced time and labor during digging, more trees per truck load, and less removal of native soil to name a few. Although planting is more labor intensive and time consuming, we feel the benefits are well worth the effort.

We have bean potting up liners in #15’s, #20’s, and #25’s. These include Ginkgo ‘Princeton Sentry’, Cercidiphyllum Hanna’s Heart, and Cornus x Celestial to name a few. We have also begun prepping ground for our field grown material. This involves cutting out remaining trees for our designated blocks, removing stumps, and and tilling ground. February-May is always our most active time of the year!

It’s already middle of October and many trees are turning bright colors and dropping leaves. We have started digging a few varieties now (Cercidphyllum, Cornus kousa, Stewartia pseu.). I anticipate within the next 3 weeks we will be able to dig all varieties. It’s the prettiest time of year in the nursery and it’s about to get much busier for us!

True, the primary delivery system for our Trees the past 20 years has been Balled & Burlap field grown trees. Don’t blink, but just check out this picture of Sue showing off a small selection of her Pot-In-Pot trees. (Put the Pictures in the post.) Left to right are #15 pot Cornus kousa var. chinensis; #20 pot Stewartia pseudocamillia; and #25 Acer griseum. In addition to these, Chrishaven Trees grows a wide selection of potted trees available for shipment year...

The trip had been scheduled for six months, so what were we to do when miserable spring weather prevented planting most of our 2011 liner crop before departure on May 17? We ordered up a couple thousand 7-8 gallon pots and put our team to work potting up beautiful Acer griseum Dogwood, Stewartia, and Magnolia (link to each item) the week prior to departure. It was a super great trip, definitely an overdose of history but we like that. From...