Tree Sizes

[Tom2020]

Picked up my new assignment and been getting along with it fine I have came to a question what i'm a little stuck on.

 

(Explain the different types of sizes of planting stock available. For the different types of stock discuss how you would handle them and store them if required to do so and why it is Important )

 

Most of the question are ok and im getting along fine with It's the sizes such as whips and potted trees .That’s all I can think of surely there must be other size trees you can get and not just whips and potted trees am only looking for the different names for the size of trees. I’ve been looking around on gardening websites and other websites and still not getting what I am looking for.

 

Hope you can understand on what i’m trying to get across

 

Thanks Tom

[Xerxses]

How many times has the tree been replanted and at the sametime rootpruned...?

[BenR]

Standard, Half standard, feathered etc etc. Im sure the literature is available somewhere online. Tried the RHS website?

[Brushcutter]

Seedlings

Transplants

Whips

Maidens

Feathered Maidens

 

Any help?

[Tom2020]

Standard, Half standard, feathered etc etc.

 

Thats what im looking for Just had a look on the RHS site either im missing it or they don't have it

 

Thanks ben that's gave me something to work on I would like to try and get as many as i can the course tutor said there's between 8-10 depending on how much you wont to do

[treequip]

Have a shufty at this from J A Jones

http://www.jajones.co.uk/Full%20Catalogue%202011-12.pdf

 

and this from Barchams

What does the British Standard for specifying trees mean? | Barcham Trees

[Tom2020]

Brushcutter

 

Thats what im looking for

 

treequip

Thanks for the link I have had the pdf open all day got a bit out of it found it to be quite use full on part's of the assignment.

[Brushcutter]

Is this for the RFS certificate by any chance. I got my answers from my notes on that. Cell grown seedlings is another one that has just sprung to mind.

[Tom2020]

No its for the national diploma.....I missed the day they where talking about it and i got some notes from a fellow student but by the looks he fell asleep half way thought the lesson.

[Brushcutter]

No its for the national diploma.....I missed the day they where talking about it and i got some notes from a fellow student but by the looks he fell asleep half way thought the lesson.

 

Do you not have all the lectures put up on the internet these days on your colleges equivelent of studynet?

 

Anyway in at attempt to procrastinate from my own work i've had a look at the BTCV tree planting and aftercare book. Not totally useful but has some stuff on planting survival rates and different methods of container growth. Also some stuff on cuttings. Its no longer avaiable free from BTCV so you'll either have to go to the libary or buy a copy. To be honest the woodlands and tree planting books are well worth having in any tree persons libary.