Evergreens

Many of our customers have asked for a reasonably priced container liner that is well branched, has a heavy root system and a larger window of time for planting. We start with a root trained Gro-Plug® seedling or a rooted cutting. We pot into a 3 ½” square by 5’ deep pot and grow them on to a two year old seedling or a three year old evergreen cutting liner. 

This pot provides ample room for well formed root development. The plants are spaced with the necessary growing room to start forming healthy branches. Our cool, sunny summers and relatively low humidity promote thick stems and heavy branching. They are grown outside during the growing season and stored in unheated polyhouses in the winter. 

One factor that makes our plants exceptional is our growing environment. Our evergreen quart liners are grown in an organic medium that encourages strong tops and heavy roots. Our native strains of ectomycorrhizae  develops in our Gro-Plug® and quart liners early. Mycorrhizae fungus forms a beneficial association with the roots to enhance water and nutrient uptake. This relationship can be seen on the short feeder roots as a white thread-like mold. The roots and mycorrhyzae work together to provide a healthier and larger plant. Plants will establish easier and grow faster in your nursery because of this beneficial fungus.

The quart liner is the ideal starter plant for field or container planting. As a container liner in its own pot, it does not need to be planted immediately and will wait until you are ready.

We are confident you will find our evergreen quart lines a useful tool in your growing operation.

Plants are sold 18 pots per flat. Mix and match full flats to obtain quantity discount.

Check out the new lower price. As we have become more efficient, we are proud to pass the savings on to you.

This is the second season of our premier bed run evergreens, and what a response we have had. This past spring of 2011 we sold more bare root evergreens than we did in 2010 and 2009, respectively.

We start our premier bed run liners by using our 51 cell Gro-Plugs® to plant out in the field. We grow them on for 3 to 4 more years to produce our finished product. Our cool summers and cold Wisconsin winters is the perfect environment for growing strong thick tops and heavy root systems. When we harvest our finished bare root liners we normally find heavy mycorrhizae on the roots. Our growing conditions are ideal for the establishment of mycorrhizae. This native strain is a natural occurring fungus that works with the root system to help the plants take up more water and nutrients from the soil.   The roots have visibly more branching than plants grown without this beneficial fungus. More branching on the roots means a faster established plant with a rapid growth rate in your field or container production.

Our cool summers help our evergreens have less stress than others in the summer months, but our harsh winters ensure you are getting very hardy plants for your production. A double bonus!

Our evergreens are harvested bed run. You will always be guaranteed straight leaders and the wonderful Evergreen Nursery root system we are known for. Growing our evergreens in the field and harvesting fresh in spring can always leave the door open for some Mother Nature issues like winter burn. When this happens, keep in mind most of these imperfections will disappear with age.

We have always had our niche in the market with this bare root line.  If you haven't tried them yet let us send you some samples so you can see the Evergreen Nursery difference.

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Our #3 and #7 container plants start with our quart liner. We upshift from the quart to the #3 and grow that tree on two more years to produce our four year old container grown tree. 

The #3 evergreens are a perfect choice for the grower and the garden center. For the grower, these containers are a great choice for lining out in your fields to give you that head start to production without risking the higher mortality rate associated with younger seedlings. In addition, these trees will wait for you to plant them as long as you keep them cultured while waiting.

For the garden center, the #3 container is great for your customer who wants an evergreen they can pick up at an affordable price, take home, and plant themselves without the need to hire a landscaper.   Plus, these plants are such a nice size they won’t get run over by the lawn mower either!

Our #7 container is a must-have for the garden center! We take our finished #3 container and again up-shift it – remember, up shifting trees makes happy trees – into the #7 and grow on two more years in our pot-in- pot production to offer a six-year-old container tree. 

 Growing containers in our pot- in- pot production all seasons results in a mixture of top quality plants and some narrower or slightly misshapen plants - we call them our  “Park Grade” trees. The root systems are superior on both grades, and you will always have a straight leader on all the trees. This “Park Grade” tree is a wonderful buy - just because we have discounted the price does not mean the tree isn’t a great value!