Think big
Feb 16, 2022
4 minutes
IF you are super-rich and impatient—or old and anxious for results—you may wish to plant outsized trees to give your garden an air of instant maturity. You won’t be the first to do so: in about 1470BC, the Pharaoh Hatshepsut sent her ships to bring large trees of frankincense from the horn of Africa to her temple at Deir el-Bahari, across the Nile from Luxor. They survived because they were transported with their rootballs intact and were well-watered until firmly established and growing again.
Those two requirements—minimum root disturbance and attentive aftercare—are still the key to success today. Gardeners are usually told to be patient and plant small trees,
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