A coniferous tree is planted with its root crown set one inch above finished grade and the trunk flare visible. The root ball rests on undisturbed native soil or compacted planting backfill with broken-up pit sides and bottom, surrounded by a backfill mix of fifty percent import topsoil and fifty percent native soil. Specified fertilizer tablets are placed as required by soils tests. The top half of the natural burlap is removed and disposed of, while synthetic burlap and wire cages are completely removed. A three-foot diameter mulch ring of specified mulch is applied in lawn areas, held back from the crown, over specified import topsoil. Three two-inch round lodgepole pine tree stakes with a minimum eight-foot length are driven into the subgrade. The tree is attached to the stakes using three-quarter-inch wide arbortie soft polypropylene material with a minimum nine-hundred-pound break strength, fastened with one-inch length roofing nails in a figure-eight pattern as low on the trunk as possible, prohibiting rubber hose and wire systems. Pruning of trees is performed only as directed in the field by the landscape architect.
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