you can learn a lot at the nursery merely by comparing the available plants. let's say you want to purchase river birch
and you nursery has 10 of them in the size you want. They're 8 to 10 feet high and feature substantial trunks that are beginning to show the peeling characteristic of a mature river bbirch .At 229 apiece they aren't cheap ,but they offer immediate landscape satisfaction.
Examine the 10 trees .Some May have only one trunk,whereas others may have two,or more .Let's say you want a classic three-trunker,and six of the threes meet this criterion. one might feature pale green leaves, whereas the others are a healthy
midgreen ;disregard the pale green vertoin . two of the threes might have root balls smaller than the other threes;disregard them. perhaps one of the remaining three trees has s large root protruding from the burlap and seems rether dried out and distressed; disregard it. Look at the remaining two river birches. either choice is probably right,but one will simply whisher " take me home