Did your zombie trees arrive one at a time in a diesel powered truck or...
...did someone hand carry 100 growing oaks up a hill to the planting site?
Moving a large tree is not the same as planting a seedling. As big as the ball of dirt looks on a moved tree, 95% of the root system was left in the ground at the nursery when the tree spade severed the root system. Sadly, the shattered ends of the severed root system will produce a thousand new roots with no room to grow and the tree will die before well its time.
Excuses will be made for a lack of or too much water. Some will blame the tree spade company, but the truth is the tree went into the ground a zombie - the living dead.
Plant a seedling. It will grow into a great tree. No more zombie trees!
Gosh, and I didn't even mention the carbon footprint of a zombie tree. This is starting to get scary.
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