Smart or not for homeowner to plant trees?
I want to buy 8 evergreen trees for my property. I would like the trees to be about 6-7 feet tall as I’m looking to immediately put up a screen between my neighbors house and mine (Good folks, I just like privacy). The trees would be planted on about a 3 foot rise about 40-50 feet from my house thus putting the tops about 9-10 feet high or about one story tall.
In my area I’m seeing prices roughly somewhere around 275$ -300$ per tree. But to my surprise it costs another 40-50% to have the trees planted by the nurseries around here. That’s a lot of bucks for planting. I’ve never bought or planted trees before and I do all the labor I can on everything in my house to save money. I’d certainly like to plant these trees myself and save a ton of money and I think it would be more gratifying.
But my question is : Is there really a big down side to planting the trees on your own rather than having the nursery plant them?
I have heard nurseries guarantee success when they plant – but for the $1,200 I’d save on planting , it seems to me I could afford several failures?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
The prices seem reasonable. Back in 2001 I ordered two 12 foot arborvitae trees form a local nursery. Each tree was about $250 and each install was $250. Installing trees that big requires a bobcat at the very least IMHO. Thats what they used to install mine. The trees and bobcat came in on a flatbed truck. The bobcat had two attachments, one to dig the holes and the other to carry the trees. My trees were a little bit bigger but still I don’t think I would have wanted to takle the job myself. What if you hit a huge boulder