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In the 1970's, Ben Walker (co-founder) owned a retail nursery called Bennett Landscape Nursery, but was dissatisfied with the quality of trees he was purchasing. The field-grown B&B trees were slow to establish and problems from root deformed trees were showing up in customers landscapes, such as blow over and declining health. In addressing the problem, he developed an inground growing system called a Tree Sox. The Tree Sox helped to develop fibrous roots and made transplanting trees more successful, but they were sometimes difficult to remove and had other challenges.While continuing his pursuit of growing trees with the healthiest roots he became acquainted with a company in Scotland that was selling a growing container called an Air-Pot™. The patented design of this container guided the growing roots towards holes in the sides of the pot. The air naturally dehydrated the roots tip forcing development of new roots. This technology is called air-pruning and results in healthier and..

Primary location: Canby United States