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Transplanting trees into a different orientation


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A good friend of mine has a load of little hornbeam coming up in his garden, which isn't huge. It's one of my favourite trees so we uprooted a dozen or so this morning for me to plant here. The largest was about 2cm in diameter and about 2m tall, maybe a bit more. I'm hoping they'll all take but wondered if anyone had done a study to see if trees transplant better if they're replanted facing the same way they were dug up? Too late for mine, it was an idle musing as I had nearly finished planting them all, but I wonder if trees are confused to find that suddenly they're the other way around?

 

On that note too, if a tree is leaning due to light from one direction, I wonder if digging it up and turning it around would straighten things?

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1 hour ago, spandit said:

I'm hoping they'll all take but wondered if anyone had done a study to see if trees transplant better if they're replanted facing the same way they were dug up?

I think the golden rule of “green side up” is applicable here.

Sorry.... I’ll get me coat on the way out.

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