These Patmore Ash trees were quickly placed along the street with our delivery truck and fork lift.  Since our 21" In-Ground fabric bag is smaller than a B&B tree an augured hole is quickly dug and less soil amendment is needed.  (November 19, 2009)

     The fabric bag is quickly cut and removed to reveal a great balanced root structure.  The science of the In-Ground fabric bag is as the roots of the plant grow, they hit the fuzzy inside fabric of the bag.  Importantly, roots do not circle on the fabric as they do against plastic.  Instead the root is caught by the fuzzy inner surface of the material.  The root penetrates the fabric.  The tough fabric, however, prevents the root from expanding.  The root is choked or girdled by the fabric.  The choking causes the root to lose its apical dominance and lateral branching or pruning occurs inside the bag.  (November 19, 2009)

     This 2" caliper Patmore Ash was quickly and easily planted, saving our customer money from increased productivity.  (November 19, 2009)

     Our 2" caliper Patmore Ash, with great branching structure.  With the great root system created from the In-Ground fabric bag we will see great root establishment and tree growth in the Spring.  (November 19, 2009)

     This 1” caliper Northern Red Oak was grown in our 10" In-Ground fabric bag.  (November 18, 2008)  Notice how the roots have been root pruned by the fabric bag, they have large callused root tips with great root girth and many small fibrous roots.  All the stored carbohydrates are ready to explode with new roots and to support a quality branching structure as well!

     This 1 ½” caliper Northern Red Oak in our 10” In-Ground fabric bag was planted the first week of May 2008 into a 21” In-Ground fabric bag.  In the photo above, inside the circle, notice the mass of roots coming out of the callused root end made by the 10” In-Ground fabric bag.  This photo is 6 ½ months after planting, dated November 18, 2008.  This is what happens in your landscape!

     This picture taken on August 14, 2009 and the following three are a sequence of photos taken of a 4" Greenspire® Linden.  Before breaking dormancy in early 2006 we transplanted around 30, 2" caliper Greenspire® Linden from our 21" In-Ground fabric bag.  With only average to low amounts of water and fertilizer in 3 1/2 years these Greenspire® Lindens hardly skipped a beat and grew over 2" in caliper.  On August 25, 2009 we dug 20 with a 36" spade for a project at Concordia University. 

      As we began washing the soil away you will notice the great fibrous root system our 21" In-Ground fabric bag created.  The root system was very balanced, with no course roots, or dominate tap roots.  We just saw strong and healthy feeder roots!  These trees were dug in some hot weather in August and didn't skip a beat and looked fantastic.  This is a strong testimony of what our 21" In-Ground fabric bag is doing in your landscape!! (August 14, 2009)

     A closer look at the outstanding root system created by our 21" In-Ground fabric bag.   From the edge of the fabric bag to the outside of the 36" spade we had a strong balanced root system.  (August 14, 2009)

     Another picture of the root system profile of our 4" caliper Greenspire® Linden.  As you can tell from the photo and with removal of all the soil we noticed no root circling.  All the fibrous roots grew very balanced and outward.  (August 14, 2009)

     One downfall with container trees is if the nursery doesn't shift up on time or poorly root pruned, you will eventually get internal girdling of the roots.  This Sweetgum only has a few more years to live before it girdles itself to death, because it came from a one gallon pot and was not shifted or possibly root pruned appropriately. 

     The other big downfall with container trees is heavy root circling as it hits the outside of the container.  These circling roots will have to be cut off and upon doing so you will severely stress the plant out and if it isn't root pruned properly these roots will stay in this circular pattern and in time will girdle and kill itself!!  You will not see this with a In-Ground fabric bag!

     Most balled and burlaped (B&B) trees are dug when the tree is dormant. Digging B&B trees when they are dormant is preferred because you cut off over 90% of the trees root system and most of these are important feeder roots.  Not only is the tree stressed out when they are dug, they are staged above ground for months at a time.  Even with the best water and care these trees can dry out and stress some more.

     Our 21" In-Ground fabric bag stays in the field until you are ready, which allows our trees to continue to grow and store more energy for when we do dig! 

     Another downfall of B&B trees is the inconsistency of a strong root ball.   There are several reasons for this.  One reason is if the bare root tree planted had any 'J' roots, one sided, or just plain poor quality these rooting patterns continues as the tree roots out and tries to find water and nutrients.  When digging a B&B ball you may have one side with little to no roots and a really poor quality ball is shipped.  This increases the stress of the tree as well as the mortality rate. 

     Another reason is each tree species has a different root structure.  If a tree has more of a tendency of rooting more downward you will have very little roots in the upper areas of the ball.  Or you can have a tree that is a really surface rooter, then the bottom of the ball will be all mushy and will fall apart. 

     The In-Ground fabric bag will not do this!!  The fabric bag will continue to create lateral root branching as the roots try to penetrate the fabric bag.  As seen in the above photos a very balanced root system is established.