Direct those roots!!
Tim Sharpe
Empowering Horticultural & Landscaping Professionals with Comprehensive Solutions | Your One-Stop Shop - 3,000 items ready for dispatch | Sales Director at StrataGreen
Active root management is now an incontestable component of best practice in urban tree planting; it is no longer sufficient to plant a tree in an urban location and hope that the roots will keep out of trouble.
The new C series RootDirector? range carries forward the function of the original square Root Directors, including tapered sides, root training ribs, and seamless sides, with the additional benefit of an integrated circular lawn edge at the top surface for a neat finish to your project. Root Director C series is available in two sizes (600mm diameter & 900mm diameter) to suit the most popular rootball dimensions.
Trees planted in urban settings often require root systems to be directed below the level of hard pavements and road curbs, to prevent costly damage due to root heave. Once a road pavement surface or road curb is broken, water penetrates and encourages further shallow root growth, and the extent of pavement damage escalates rapidly. Often the most economical solution is to remove the tree, to the loss and detriment of the community and environment.
Planting trees with a properly designed root management system is a small cost to pay compared to the cost over time of infrastructure repair, not to mention litigation.
If one simply wants to protect paved surfaces from root heave, it is unnecessarily restrictive on the tree to install a vertical sheet barrier 1m all round. The Root Director product diverts roots downwards to a level where they can safely establish without surface damage
Some key benefits that Root Directors will provide for your project include-
- Integral Lawn Edge
- Tapered sides
- Tough molded construction
- Recycled polymer
- Protection for paved surrounds
- Encourages deep root growth
- Improved drought tolerance
- Greatly enhanced tree stability
- Integral ribbed construction which prevents root swirl
- Simple to install
Contact me at tim.sharpe@stratagreen.com.au for more information on Root Directors.
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7 å¹´City of Melville could have done with some of these a few years ago when they stupidly planted eucalypts on the median strip of Findlay Road in Leeming (as they're now breaking through the road surface, and have been for at least two years!)