Fall color

With the changing of leaves the approach of another digging season is upon us. How quickly things change in the nursery from August to October. The Nyssa Tupelo Tower and Stewartia monadelpha look especially brilliant right now. We have been actively digging our growbag stock but in a couple more weeks we’ll hit overdrive when our B&B stock becomes ready to dig.

Inground Growbag production

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.

Planting season is here!

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!

Digging season is upon us

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!

Chrishaven Potted Plants

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...