Gardening: Choose the right mature trees for your garden
With Jo McGarry of Caragh Nurseries
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The semi-mature trees that we have planted in our own fields here at Caragh Nurseries are allowed to grow in the open ground and so have established healthy, strong root structures.
As more mature trees, they have been allowed to grow over a good number of years, with the right amount of care, pruning and special care to their root structure.
If the roots are allowed to grow too extensively it will not only make the tree too hard to move, it will also mean the root structure is not as strong. This and some careful pruning does mean that the head of the tree will not be as big as if it were left to its own devices - however, this is to the benefit of the tree long term and makes it an awful lot easier to move the trees to their new homes too. We are the premier supplier in Ireland of rootballed and mature trees to the general public and so our range is extensive and we h