Advanced Field Grown (Field Dug) Trees 2024
Buy years in a matter of moments. Am I a crazy scientist? Someone from the future?
No, I’m just a nurseryman who wants you to have a beautiful garden. The quickest and easiest way to do that is by buying advanced field grown trees.
Field Dug SHADE Trees
Field Dug SCREENING Trees
Field Dug FLOWERING Trees
Field Dug SMALL ORNAMENTAL Trees
Field Dug MEDIUM ORNAMENTAL Trees
Field Dug FEATURE Trees
Field Dug LARGE FEATURE Trees
Field Dug HARDY COUNTRY PROPERTY Trees
Field Dug SPRING & SUMMER FOLIAGE Trees
Field Dug AUTUMN FOLIAGE Trees
Field Dug AVENUE Trees
Field Dug WEEPING STANDARD Trees
There’s a lot of scenarios in which you need a garden to look great, really quickly. Perhaps you’re finishing off a property to sell, or you just bought some land and don’t want to wait years upon years for it to look good.
For under $1000 you can get a seven to ten year old tree (or two) that is going to:
- Elevate your garden to the next level
- Give your property an established look overnight
- Increase its market value
- Give you instant privacy
Buying an advanced field grown tree is buying time. Time that would have been spent watering, fertilising, maintaining, and waiting for a sapling to mature.
What is a field grown advanced tree?
Nurserymen start by planting a selection of trees out in their field. These trees are already two to four years old when planted, then are grown for three to six more years. When they are ready for their forever home, they are dug up with a special tree spade. Check out our video below on the exact process.
So you normally don’t see these trees in retail nurseries or chain stores, as they don’t have the equipment or the room to handle them. We can offer them because of how large our retail space, trucks and delivery equipment are.
Advantages of field grown over pot grown
Because they are planted in fields, they have much more space between one another than pot grown trees. This results in thicker trunks and better developed branches. They have a straighter root system, whereas in a pot the roots will coil.
Advantages of field grown over pot grown
Because they are planted in fields, they have much more space between one another than pot grown trees. This results in thicker trunks and better developed branches. They have a straighter root system, whereas in a pot the roots will coil.
Utilising your advanced trees
Plant one to five in key positions in the landscape, then fill up the rest of the garden with lots of smaller plants. Your garden will look established and elevated. When you consider the age, size and impact of the advanced trees available today, you may decide to plant the whole garden screen or avenue with advanced trees.
Advanced trees are much cheaper nowadays, because the transportation technology had improved greatly. Nurseries can now dig and deliver trees in mass. Before they were hand digging them!
Planting and establishing your tree
Your field grown tree will 
come with its roots enveloped in an earthen ball, wrapped in Hessian and secured with a wire mesh basket to hold it all together. Lean it up against a wall and make sure to keep the root ball moist. Dig a hole that is an extra 50cm wide than the root ball. Combine potting mix through the parent soil. You want the root ball high in the hole and surrounded by loose permeable soil.
Then cut the wire basket and string around the foliage. Undo the hessian from the trunk. If the hessian is not badly rotted, you can use it as a sling to help lower the tree into the hole. As long as the hessian is not tied to the trunk, it can be left in the hole to rot.
Top dress your tree with Osmocote and soil wetter. Keep it watered so that it is moist, but don’t go overboard and waterlog it.
If trees are less than 2.5 metres tall, or if they are in very sheltered area, they may not need securing. But if they are bigger than this, then you will need to secure it. We will be posting a video soon that takes you through this special process.
Chris’ Experience with Advanced Trees
In 1985 I was operating a mail order business called Farm Fodder Trees Australia. One evening, a friend of mine, John Fenton called and said that a load of 500 advanced trees had been dropped on a farm in Yarra Glen.
He wanted me to take a look and work out what to do. So I drive out there and check out these 500 trees. They were three to nine metes tall, laying on their side, coming into leaf and drying out. Yikes. Because there was no plumbing in the field, I had to buy a pump, get it going, and set up a system of pipes and sprinklers to water them all. It felt a bit like I had a hospital of trees that all needed me to stay alive.
I made a deal with the landscape architects, and I spent the next eight weeks from dawn to dusk, seven days a week, tending to these patients. I watered, moved and planted them in conjunction with the landscape architect’s plans.
The farm where I purchased these trees had now become TarraWarra Estate winery. As you drive into TarraWarra Estate winery you drive through a magnificent forest of tall straight Poplars and the surrounding hills are covered in beautiful deciduous trees. Most of those trees are part of the original 500 trees that I planted.
A Huge Range of Advanced Trees
Now obviously you’re not going to have to go to this extreme for your tree. So why tell you about advanced field grown trees? Well, we have an exciting new range of quality advanced trees that have just been added to our website. From Silver Birches to Forest Pansies, there is a huge selection to choose from. Time travel and browse our range here.
With a good canapy of shade, use one or more of these trees to create a haven of shade for you and your family in the warmer months of the year.
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These trees are great to make a barrier of privacy between you and your neighbours. Also great to plant along the fence line for a more lush and intimate yard.
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If you want a blossoming garden for a lot of the year then we’d suggest including one or more of these trees to add to lower flowering plants for plenty of colour and interest.
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Our Advanced Field Dug Small Ornamental Trees category offers a selection of mature, ready-to-plant ornamental trees, ideal for adding immediate visual appeal to your garden or landscape. In this category, you will find trees good for small gardens and spaces.
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Our Advanced Field Dug Medium Ornamental Trees category offers a selection of mature, ready-to-plant ornamental trees, ideal for adding immediate visual appeal to your small to medium sized garden or landscape.
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We have many field dug feature trees to choose from here. Feature trees create visual interest, provide a sense of scale, and add personality to outdoor spaces. For our bigger feature trees scroll down to our next section.
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Check out our larger field dug feature trees here for making a real statement on your property and for commercial properties too. Feature trees create visual interest, provide a sense of scale, and add personality to outdoor spaces.
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These trees are as tough as they come, to withstand the harsh weathers that properties out in the country can experience.
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Vibrant leaves that really display their beauty best in the spring and summer months.
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For some beautiful autumn leaves in your garden, choose one or more of these trees for your property.
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Line your driveway with these beautiful trees making a real design statement to your property entrance.
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Weeping trees make a magnificent, low maintenance garden feature. Their elegant weeping habit and restricted height make them the ideal choice for both large and small gardens.
