Transplants need nutritional boost: With most ornamental plants transplanted to alien environments, special care is needed to enable them to flourish

摘要

Landscapers today face a formidable challenge: most ornamental plants used in the landscape trade are not indigenous to the habitats in which they're expected to flourish. Moreover, climate extremes and soil depleted of nutrients have made outdoor environments more adverse to plants. So, how do you ensure these transplants thrive? Transplanting itself is traumatic to plants; uprooting a tree, a bush or even a small flowering plant disturbs its place in the environment. Extra care is needed in order to make the transplanted vegetation take root and subsequently thrive. Access to water is just the beginning. Plants must make or receive many vitamins, hormones and other compounds of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in order to flourish.