Amazinglyour time spent among trees has been scientifically proven to relieve our stress. And when trees exist in right-of-ways or surrounding homes, these areas were found to have lower crime rates than other communities without them.
Studies show that nursery-grown trees, whether balled and burlapped (B&B) or containerized, inherently possess liabilities; predominantly hidden defects that end up being a time and money sink for us consumers.
At the root-soil interface, plant roots often struggle to grow from one type of substrate to another. This could occur with B&B trees as well. Root washing is often recommended and is yet another step to consider.
Large nursery trees often incur injuries in transit. Root balls can be crushed when B&B trees are moved; tie-down straps, if not properly placed, can damage tree trunks; often the trunk sheath that affords protection is missing and so is the tarp used to protect the living cargo. Stacked in the bed of a truck, tree trunks and foliage are often open to damage.
Trees planted with excess soil piled up over the root collar (see #1) are typically planted too deep in the landscape. A 2000 study by Smiley and Booth found that 93% of professionally planted trees are planted too deep. Other studies found that deep planting can predispose a tree to transplant failure and girdling root formation.
One great option is to seek out and purchase your trees from a restoration organization that grows saplings from regionally collected seed. Your local Native Plant Society chapter may also offer very young trees or can assist in finding them. Growing a tree yourself from a seed is also a smart alternative (more on that later).
Just as birds dropped the seeds of the beautiful Eastern redcedars (Juniperus virginiana) that now anchor the corner of my front garden, other wildlife and winds also frequently deposit other tree seeds. If you have a large enough space and the mature trees near you are in natural areas (primarily wild), you could choose to keep some of these sprouts. This is probably the simplest method of foresting your property!
My nearby garden center, not surprisingly, neither sells bare root or potted saplings to consumers nor do they tout the importance of planting them. I suspect the same goes for most landscaping companies, too. They are all in it for a large profit, after all.
Dr. Douglas Tallamy has become a trusted voice for defenders of our natural world. He inspired us to leap feet first into the role of wildlife gardeners when, in 2007, his research on Lepidoptera (moth and butterfly) host plants was widely introduced in Bringing Nature Home.
And although all of our native plants have an ecological role to play, you can see they are not all the powerhouses that our oaks are. As a matter of fact, only a few plant genera produce roughly 75% of the food needed to sustain populations of insects and ultimately other animals such as birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals.
As oaks continue to mature, the root systems that they develop over their lifetimes help make them champions when it comes to environmental services such as soil stabilization, carbon sequestration, and watershed management.
Tallamy tells us that oak leaves are loaded with lignins and tannins that retard breakdown. They can take up to three years to decompose. Their gradual decay, combined with the yearly replenishment of autumn leaves, provides food, shelter and the humid conditions required by vital decomposers such as bacteria and fungi, and animals like moths and spiders.
Trees are pack animals. They do better when planted alongside other trees. Through complex root systems, the same tree species can share nutrients and resources with each other; they communicate through symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi. Trees help each other to survive.
Native trees (and shrubs, too) are low maintenance plants for garden enthusiasts and non-gardeners alike. They do not need chemical inputs such as fertilizers or pesticides. As trees and shrubs mature, lawn is shaded and dies; shade, along with layers of fallen leaves, is a natural way to reduce lawn over time.
Have deer? It will be necessary to protect your saplings if you have deer living in your neighborhood, like I do. I build wide and tall cages out of 14-gauge galvanized steel welded wire garden fencing and 3-4 rebar stakes and keep them in place until the trees grow higher than the deer can browse. Tree trunks should continue to be protected in subsequent years from rutting or rubbing.
A lot of users are confused about the TreeSize app. This post of MiniTool is worth reading. It introduces this tool from the aspects of the definition, download/install, and alternative in detail.
TreeSize is a free disk space analyzer released by JAM software. This software can be used to analyze disk space for all Windows versions and server versions (both 32-bit and 64-bit) supported by Microsoft.
With the TreeSize Windows app installed, you can run it to display a drive and folder/file size and find space hogs. Then you can export reports such as charts, tables, bar charts, and treemaps to various formats, including text, clipboard, HTML, XML, and Microsoft Excel. It also allows you to delete files to the Recycle Bin or move them to a different path.
Of course, if you want to search for a specific large and old file such as duplicates or web browser cache, you can use the Professional and Personal editions. Besides, this disk analyzer can monitor your disk space usage developments and compare the XML reports.
The TreeSize app comes with a simple ribbon user interface that looks like Windows File Explorer. Differently, it not only displays the file name, size, date modified, and type but the number of files/folders, the allocation of disk space, and the percentage.
However, lots of people are still confused about where to get the TreeSize free download pack. If you are trying to find a full TreeSize download/install guide for Windows 10/11, move down to the following part.
Step 2. Click on Free Download and follow the on-screen prompts to download the software. Also, you can scroll down the page to download the TreeSize Personal/Professional version, which provides a 30-days free trial.
Step 3. Now, you should be directed to the TreeSize Free Download Freeware page. Select a version according to your demand from the drop-down menu and click on Download. Then click on Continue with TreeSize Free and select a location to save the download.
Step 1. Lunch the TreeSize software to enter its main interface, click on Select Directory and select the drive that you want to scan. If you want to analyze the disk space of a specific folder, click on Select Directory to scan.
Step 4. You can expand the folder to see how many files are under it and check if there are any unnecessary large files. To free up disk space, you can right-click the file and select Delete. Or you can select TreeSize and select Compress item to compress the large folder or select other options depending on your needs.
Although the TreeSize app can help analyze disk usage and clean up your computer disk, many users find that there is a big difference in used disk space shown between Windows Explorer and TreeSize. Here is a true example from the
answers.microsoft.com forum:
Windows Explorer disk usage does not match TreeSize. Windows Explorer says my 884 GB C: drive has only 25GB left, but I ran the Tree Size Free utility and I can only find 165GB of stuff on it. (This aligns with my manual checking of directory sizes). Does anyone have any idea why Explorer is convinced the drive is almost full?
Why Windows Explorer disk usage does not match TreeSize so much? After investigating extensive user reports and references, we find the main reason is the way that Windows Explorer and TreeSize determine the disk usage based on two different properties.
As mentioned above, this app cannot access certain hidden or system files without admin rights. You can try running TreeSize as administrator and check if it works. To do so, you can right-click the executable file of this app and select Run as administrator.
In addition, file system errors can lead to TreeSize not showing up all data problems. Here we recommend you run a CHKDSK scan to check and repair file systems errors. To do so, follow the simple guide below:
Is there an effective TreeSize alternative for Windows 10/11? Absolutely yes! MiniTool Partition Wizard is a good TreeSize alternative, which can help you check what is taking up disk space but also delete corrupted/unnecessary files and folders permanently.
The MiniTool software is a free disk analyzer but also a professional partition/disk manager that can be used to migrate OS, extend/resize partitions, and convert GPT to MBR. More importantly, it can scan and show disk usage with a very small difference compared to Windows Explorer.
If you have any other options or ideas about this subject, please leave them in the comment zone. Of course, you can send us an email to [email protected] if you have difficulty using MiniTool Partition Wizard.
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