Mycorrhizal Science for Landscape Contractors

You finish off every landscape project with the best plants that you can find – this living, breathing 'touch of nature' is the icing on the cake! And yet, it’s the most vulnerable part of what you’ve created for your client. Let’s make sure that the good impression lasts.

Your clients expect the best. So, when you install new plants you'll be doing everything right; you've selected the healthiest plants and you’ll install them with care and expertise. But after you leave the site, how well will the plants perform? Will the roots adapt to this new situation? In the end, the success of the roots determines the success of the plant.

Root Rescue’s Transplanter MS-CS is formulated and proven to help new plants adapt to the soil environment on every planting site. The formulation delivers a host of dormant mycorrhizal fungi directly and evenly to the root zone. Delivering the fungal spores into the soil around the roots wakes them up – and within days, they will begin to form a beneficial symbiosis with plant roots. These fascinating fungi are associated with the roots of plants all over North America (in undisturbed natural environments) where they work with roots to seek out resources in the soil that the roots alone cannot find. Plants in the wild universally rely on these ancient microbes. Plants that have a community of mycorrhizae working with their roots are much more resilient and are ready to cope with the shock of being moved from the nursery into their new setting. The result is Plant Success – not plant failure. Successful plants mean happy clients. The client doesn’t want to see their beautiful new plants fail – and you don’t want the phone call when they do.

If you are planting out trees on commercial or municipal projects, Transplanter MS-CS is especially valuable. Trees and shrubs in these settings get very little (or no) after-care once your crew has left the planting site. These plants need all the help they can get to adapt and thrive – especially in the first few weeks and months after planting. The University of Guelph tested Transplanter MS-CS on several different planting sites from 2009 through 2013. The summer of 2012 was one of the hottest and driest on record, and Transplanter MS-CS performed beautifully; dozens of untreated test trees didn’t survive that summer's testing program – almost all of the treated ones did. Follow this link to check out the results.

The Mycorrhizal Status of Plant Families and Genera Commonly Used in Landscape Plantings

In the table below you can find the mycorrhizal status of a wide range of landscape plants. Root Rescue's Transplanter MS-CS contain 18 different species of both Endo and Ectomycorrhizal Fungi.