Transplants are defined as ‘‘seedlings or cuttings which have been transplanted at least once’’. The term usually refers to plants which are two or three years old.

Transplants are specified with reference to three or more of the following:

• Age/Condition

• Root collar diameter

• Overall height

• Root protection

• Container size

In transplanting the main roots are cut back to encourage a fibrous root system and the ‘transplant’ is replanted at a wider spacing. Undercutting severs the main roots in situ, thereby encouraging the development of a fibrous root system without transplanting. Transplants are very popular for extensive landscape planting of seed or cutting propagated trees.

TRANSPLANT

e.g. Alnus glutinosa, Quercus robur, Betula pendula, Crataegus monogyna and many others.