Starting an Orchard | Girl Planting Fruit Trees in the Forest 

I agree with Naomi - would be a bummer, if that would be the reason your trees won,t grow properly. 🤔

Also, its better put nothing in the hole , just the local soil. That soil looks good. Clay is good, rich in minerals, and hold water and organic matter. Compost, and organic fertilizers like horse manure - woody compost only fertilizes a bit after years, at begginning it requires nitrogen to get composted by bacteria- should not be used in the roits, in the hole, just above the soil, as mulch. Specially in clay soil. You are basicly creating a anaerobic composting place. Makes the probability of roting roots much higer. Plants roots dont feed on carbon. They rot in carbon. Its even better to take that bark/peet compost of the pot/rootball out, and plant bare root directly in the native soil. If you want to "soften/loose" the the hole dirt a bit use sand, or even small rocks. Nursery plant are sintetic fertilized regulary, so, if you want a quick start and adaptation spread a bit of slow release npk around the hole, organic or sintetic, which is much more effective. Just for the start, after a few years the tree finds what it need on the soil, air, light, water... lavanders and other like it dont need compost at all, they like dry hard soil. You have a very beautiful flowering cane in the garden that is very invasive , specially in wet climas (its causing great damage in azores), pay atention to it. Spreads by roots. You have a beautiful place. Good luck.

More than that, that union is where the tree meets a dwarfing rootstock to keep the tree heading for it's full, potentially 5m height and spread. If the soil/compost is at or over that join, the natural tree above the junction will send out roots and by-pass the dwarfing effect entirely. Tree will be between 2 and 3 times the size you think it will grow to become.

I think you talk about the graft

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Maybe a Banana Tree as well !

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