Our Process

At Field Station, we specialize in the cultivation of large evergreen and shade trees for your residential or commercial landscape needs. We grow and wholesale sellable and installable plant material for re-wholesalers, nurseries, contractors, homeowners, and business owners. Our trucking and logistics department handles the delivery of your plant material, taking the headache out of hiring a third-party logistics business to dispatch your load. While we do offer many logistics solutions, we are also happy to load the freight carrier of your choice.

Landscape Contractors who order through Field Station Farms enjoy pre-scheduled delivery of their sensitive plant material, often directly to their job sites or shops. This saves valuable time for employees who no longer have to go wait in lines to pick up plant material for installation projects. Even with delivery, our pricing is often below the pickup prices from many competing nurseries. Couple that with the time savings, and contractors have a win-win solution for balled-in-burlap and container trees and shrubs.

At our farm, great importance is placed on quality of trees and harvesting techniques, and not on profiting from measurements or the downsizing of balls or containers. This means that we do not dig our plants “light” in order to fit more on a load, or in order to make handling easier on our end or the customer’s end, unless we are specifically directed to do so by our customer.

Many of the trees found at re-wholesale nurseries in Virginia are shipped from surrounding states like Tennessee, North and South Carolina, where land and labor are more economical, and where there is less urbanization and planting occurring. The shipping of these out-of-state plants to Central and Northern Virginia is a primary concern of buyers and resellers, and so often these trees will be balled and caged at the smallest possible size so that they are as light as possible, and can ship as cheaply as possible. This affects no one so negatively as the end user (the contractor or the owner of the finally installed plant). At Field Station, we are happy to dig heavy to provide the absolute best tree so that our contractors and re-wholesalers can walk away from sales and installations knowing that their plants have the best possible chance of survival.

Many of our trees are still dug using the heralded Dutchman 360i 36” tree spade. This spade digs a non-truncated, full ball, and allows for excellent survivability of the tree. We use the highest quality cages available, and higher quality burlap than many other farms. We also use staples instead of nails, for many reasons, saving our customers money on countless ties and stuck fingers. All of these small points of quality add up, and give Field Station customers a decisive quality and survivability advantage.