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Horse Chestnut Tree - Description
- Bare Root Horse Chestnut Tree
- Latin Name: Aesculus Hippocastanum
- Native Irish Plant
- Bare Root Plant
- Size: 2 - 3 Foot (60 - 80cm)
- Fast Growing & Hardy Tree
Horse Chestnut Tree - Characteristics
- Large deciduous tree
- Flowering tree: Spring flowering
- Fruit: Conkers
- Habit: Stately tree with large dome canopy
- Foliage: Palmate compound
- Leaves can reach up to 2ft in width
- Deciduous tree, they lose their leaves in Winter
- Mature size: Can reach 40m in height
- Growth rate: Fast
- Very hardy tree
Delivery - Important Note - Please Read
- We can only deliver orders of this product by Fastway couriers
- Please do not choose DPD as your courier for orders containing this item
Horse Chestnut Tree - Uses
- Ideal for large gardens
- Popular street & park tree
- Excellent for carbon storage
- Considered our best native tree to absorb carbon from the atmosphere
- Plant to offset carbon footprint & reverse climate change
- Great trees for fast results
- Quick to establish & fast growing
- Suited to poorer soils or wet soils
- Grow to form wind barriers & visual barriers
Horse Chestnut Tree - Planting Instructions
Planting Time
- Ideally, plant as soon as arrive
- Avoid frosty conditions, where the ground is frozen
- These saplings will establish fast
Positioning Trees
- Position in a sunny spot
- Soil: Happy in all soils
- When planting, hold plants at ground level & back fill the top soil
- Ensure each plant is straight & soil is compacted in around it's root ball
- Level off the soil around the plants
- Support with bamboo cane for first 2 years
- Replace cane with larger stake when required
After Care
- Water before & after planting
- Weeding is also essential, especially bind weed which can quickly smoother a young tree
- Keep grass growth away from the base of trees to ensure a faster growth rate
- Avoid strimming around the base of trees
Horse Chestnut Tree - Quick Facts
- These trees get their name from their distinctive marking where leaf petiole joins main stem
- You can see a horseshoe shape with '7 nails'
- Also called the Anne Frank Tree, as she refers to it in her diary
- Believed to have many medicinal benefits including preventing kidney failure
