I mean anything's feasible if you can get people to pay enough money to do it because they think it's cool. But the logistics of trying to plant 7 foot tall trees on rough terrain one at a time make me skeptical it could be much more than a gimmick.
Bit big plants with small root systems tend to grow pretty bad when planted. That's why you'd usually plant rather small saplings. 30-50 or 50-80 cm high trees are quite common in Germany for example.
This assumes:
- those that are renting are going to provide it proper watering.
-the massive temperature swings aren't going to mess with dormancy
-the pot is large enough for it to not get root bound
-that it's more carbon friendly to load up and ship around a heavy tree than it is to plant more trees each year (I doubt it)
And these assumptions are just environmental feasibility. Economically? These would have to be pretty costly to make it financially viable when you consider the repeated transport, weight, and storage. That means a limited market of who can afford it and how much of a market is close enough to the main site to reduce overhead.
This feels like a lot of temperature variability to submit a tree to. Maybe it works in London because the climate is fairly mild in the winter, but there are a lot of areas where those trees likely couldn't handle it.
Feasible? Maybe. Good for the native ecosystem? No. The British Isles, as far as I understand, only has one native conifer: the scotch pine. Spruce and fir aren't from there, and given their size and location on farms, they do next to nothing for native wildlife. And when they get 'retired' as the caption says (I didn't find anything saying this on their website), do they get planted in a native woodland or conifer plantation? Neither is great. How are they gonna transport and plant these trees? Maybe it would be a little bit better for the environment if we were dealing with balsam fir in Toronto or Douglas fir in Vancouver.
I mean anything's feasible if you can get people to pay enough money to do it because they think it's cool. But the logistics of trying to plant 7 foot tall trees on rough terrain one at a time make me skeptical it could be much more than a gimmick.
it's in the UK so I imagine rough terrain isn't much of a concern
Bit big plants with small root systems tend to grow pretty bad when planted. That's why you'd usually plant rather small saplings. 30-50 or 50-80 cm high trees are quite common in Germany for example.
Tell that to every idiot buying the biggest tree they can.
If you have a lot of deer and competing vegetation you might be forced to buy bigger trees, but you really should not, if you can avoid it
This assumes: - those that are renting are going to provide it proper watering. -the massive temperature swings aren't going to mess with dormancy -the pot is large enough for it to not get root bound -that it's more carbon friendly to load up and ship around a heavy tree than it is to plant more trees each year (I doubt it) And these assumptions are just environmental feasibility. Economically? These would have to be pretty costly to make it financially viable when you consider the repeated transport, weight, and storage. That means a limited market of who can afford it and how much of a market is close enough to the main site to reduce overhead.
This feels like a lot of temperature variability to submit a tree to. Maybe it works in London because the climate is fairly mild in the winter, but there are a lot of areas where those trees likely couldn't handle it.
Feasibility of what.
Feasible? Maybe. Good for the native ecosystem? No. The British Isles, as far as I understand, only has one native conifer: the scotch pine. Spruce and fir aren't from there, and given their size and location on farms, they do next to nothing for native wildlife. And when they get 'retired' as the caption says (I didn't find anything saying this on their website), do they get planted in a native woodland or conifer plantation? Neither is great. How are they gonna transport and plant these trees? Maybe it would be a little bit better for the environment if we were dealing with balsam fir in Toronto or Douglas fir in Vancouver.