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What do Bareroot Trees Look Like?

15/09/2025

These are bareroot trees:

  • Fruit trees are sold either as one-year-old maidens, or two-year-old bushes and half standards.
  • Ornamental trees are sold in standard sizes, measured by their girth in centimetres one metre above soil level. The most common sizes are 6/8cm and 8/10cm.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

This is a maiden, this is an apple, Christmas Pippin. So that’s the size you will receive through the post. This is a Bush, this is another Apple, James Grieve. So that’s the size of the bush plants that you’ll receive through the post. This is a half standard, where the top’s been pruned out, so you’ve got plenty of branches coming up through there, and that’s a cherry.

This is one of our 6/8cm standards. So he’s about four metres high, and the six to eight is the circumference around the girth of the tree.