Best season to plant tree

Question

My tree fell because of wind (pulled out stump) now i want to plant a willow but i need to know when the best season (don't say that depends where u from) i`m from calgary ab canada

Answer 1

Early Fall or early Spring.

Answer 2

Late summer or early fall is the best time to plant or transplant trees. The main reasons are the weather is cooler at this point in time, and rains are more regular. When you transplant any plant, it will have a period of shock, this happening going into the summer heat can be very bad for the plant. When dealing with smaller shrubs and flowers they heal in very quickly so you can get away with it, but a tree takes longer. The other reason is that even though once the leaves fall off the tree in the fall, and it appears to have gone dormant, it has not. Actually this is the time period when the tree grows most of all, except you will not see the growth since it is occurring under the ground. With almost any plant, when the above ground portion goes dormant, the root growth explodes since it is not in competition with the rest of the tree.  Another factor that makes this time better then others would be the fact that there are less insects (which vector in diseases) present after a couple of frosts. So you will not have to worry about that going against you as well.

Answer 3

Early spring is the best since it is not hot and will have plenty of time to get rooted.  You can do it in early summer if you water.  The fall is ok as long as there is a year guarentee on the plant because with large trees you are risking them not taking root before the winter when planting in the fall.  

Answer 4

normally fall. make sure that if all the other trees are bare than yours is too

Answer 5

Fall is the best time to plant a tree...Why would you want to plant a willow?  They're messy, fast growing but easily damaged in wind and oh, did I mention...Messy!