Georgia Wildlife Planting Photos by Scott Berta, Royal Forest Management
To meet the landowner’s goal of improving wildlife habitat, consulting forester Scott Berta’s plan called for planting a mix of crabapple, apple, pear, sawtooth oak, persimmon and hawthorn.
Trees were planted on 25’ x 25’ spacing. Scott did a great job of following the site’s natural contours with the rows; the landowner gets the maintenance benefits of rows without the grid-like appearance of straight rows.
The trees were planted and the tree tubes were applied in March 2008.
The seedlings were 12” to 24” tall at planting time.
Scott chose 3 foot and 4 foot C-Style tree tubes for this project.
Scott emailed to say, “I am finding them to definitely be a superior product to any other tree shelter I have used in the past.”
Dogwood trees planted along the edge of a Bermuda grass field.
… Stay tuned for mid-summer follow up photos!
These next 4 photos were taken on June 5, 2008 – about 2 and ½ months after planting.
This photos shows a pear tree emerging from a 4ft Plantra Tree Tube.
Scott Berta standing next to a sawtooth oak that is 12” out the top of a 4ft Plantra Tree Tube – just 2.5 months after planting as a 24” seedling!
Same field as the sawtooth oak and pear pictured above… most of the trees had emerged from their 4ft tree shelters by June 5 – and have grown quite a bit since then!
In another field on the same property, Scott planted a circular ring of crabapple trees. By June 5 most had emerged from 3ft Plantra C-style Tree Tubes.
