
	Rootgrow™	**Feed your plants and Resist Drought For Life**

East of Eden Plants is a specialist nursery growing and supplying Hardy Exotic plants, including Tropical plants, Mediterranean plants and other world plants, for all your new exotic garden and landscape project adventures. We also specialise in an exciting range of conservatory and interior plants and can undertake all design work for you. Our aim is to supply superior exotic plants and designs to suit all exterior and interior spaces in the UK.

Rootgrow™ Mycorrhizal fungi ~ Feeding your Plants for Life

The Rootgrow™ mycorrhizal range for 2008 is available from the East of Eden Plants on-line shop now.

Rootgrowplus™ in 360g re-sealable pouches £11.00

Rootgrow PROFESSIONAL for designers, architects and
landscapers

Why use Rootgrow™?
Friendly fungi - mycorrhiza - exist naturally with plants in a well-balanced soil. Over-cultivated plots, new building sites, commercial potting preparations - and new landscaping projects - all share one thing in common: reduced or damaged mycorrhizal presence in the soil.

Naturally occuring in the soil, mycorrhiza pair up with host plants for mutual advantage. Plants that are treated with commercially available mycorrhizal preparations outperform non-treated specimens with remarkable results. Rootgrow™, the result of 30 years' work by a team of bioscientists, is such a product.

This column is just our précis of the word going round on this plantscaper's dream-come-true. We are happy to share this secret with you, because it should be common knowledge - and common practice - to all gardeners. There is no risk of over-populating your soil with this product: if your soil already has sufficient presence of mycorrhizal fungi, more will simply not establish against the already competing fungi. All you will have done is added cheap alginate (seaweed derived nutrients) mixed with clay pellets.

How will you know if you have enough mycorrhizal fungi present before you start? You won't, but if your soil is deficient, then the results may be dramatic! And at these affordable prices, the chance to find out is too good to miss. In any case, all plantings in new commercial compost for seeding, bedding and potting will certainly benefit from the Rootgrow™ treatment.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew save some of their oldest trees using mycorrhizal fungi.

The Rootgrow™ home
and garden range

We do not need to eulogise about the benefits of Rootgrow™ and our conversion to the cause (although we could!) - we will leave it up to you to follow our links and read the growing (sorry!) enthusiasm for this 21st Century innovation - Nature really does know best.

So, fight drought, fight disease, increase quality natural root growth without forcing - and get trees, hedges and a host of other plants off to a rapid start and a long healthy life - what are you waiting for?

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We use Rootfood™ for UK native, tropical plants, Mediterranean plants and other world exotic plants, and as an ideal soil enhancer after planting with Rootgrow™.

Garden plants - plants, plants, plants! Especially our superb offerings of tropical plants, Mediterranean plants, including olives, citrus and cypress, with other world exotic plants for stunning permanent displays of colour, form and texture

Garden projects - come home to the world of your dreams. For the price of a holiday abroad, live the dream in your own home all year round - forever!

Interior plants for Homes - tropical plants, Mediterranean plants, including citrus, and other world exotic plants

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White Horse Wood trials

'In 5 years time everyone will be using Rootgrow™ as standard.'

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Turn up the hyphae! - the new Rock and Roll!
Mycorrhiza, 'friendly fungi', have existed in the ground for millions of years. They form a mutually beneficial harmony, or symbiosis, with living plants: yeilding up additional nutrients from the soil in return for plant sugars. The result is healthier, more disease and drought resistant plants, looking their best for longer. Mycorrhiza, which means 'fungus root', do this by spreading their filaments, called 'hyphae', wider and deeper into the upper soil horizons than the host plant it pairs up with. The hyphae then tap into the plant's roots, without damaging the individual cells, and perform their uniquely beneficial bio-stock exchange. [Actually, we know 'hyphae' is pronounced 'hi-fee', we just couldn't resist the pun!]

See the Rootgrow™ shop Catalogue

Increased growth in plug plants

How do I use Rootgrow™?

Easy! GUIDANCE NOTES FOR USING ROOTGROW™ MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI

Will my garden be full of mushrooms, then?
No. Not from the addition of Rootgrow™, at any rate. The mycorrhyza contained in the product range, chosen from an estimated 6,000 species, are not harmful to plant growth and do not produce fruiting bodies - they just reach down into the soil, up to ten times the depth of the plant roots, and yield up that amount of extra nutrients.

Rootgrow Wisteria sinensis Trial May to November 2004

All Gardeners ~

Rootgrowplus™ in resealable pouches
This 21st Century innovation of Nature's 500 million year-old 'technology' is available for garden plants and trees.

Within 4 weeks your plant will develop a huge mycorrhizal fungi root system, which will support your plant for its entire lifetime.

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Rootgrowplus™ mix for all plants including trees mycorrhiza preparation

Top soil - Nature's Way
~restoring mycorrhiza~

Following 30 years of scientific research, rootgrow™ and rootgrowplus natural friendly fungi -mycorrhizal fungi- are available to home gardens, parks, estates, landscaping projects, motorway verges

In fact, everywhere the soil is over cultivated or impoverished and the natural soil harmony that plants benefit from is diminished, rootgrow has the potential to create better and more natural growing conditions. Even stress from drought is tackled by rootgrow mycorrhiza.

"I have been using mycorrhizal fungi in the borders at Berryfields and can't get over how effective it is". Alice Fowler, Gardeners' World Magazine, January 2007

"You should certainly plant using rootgrow granules which, by means of fungal mycorrhizas, greatly magnify a plant's ability to absorb moisture from the soil."
Stephen Anderton, The Saturday Times 15th of April, 2006

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Rootgrow™~how to tackle drought in 2008

Rootgrow Application Guide

Scientific papers and National press articles on Rootgrow™

Exceptions
Few plant types don't have a relationship and won't benefit from using mycorrhizal fungi: Rootgrow™ and RootgrowplusT does not work with ericaceous plants, i.e. Heathers, nor Azaleas, Brassicas and Rhododendruns.
For all trees, Coniferous and Native Trees,etc. use Rootgrowplus™.

Treated leeks on the right - with their untreated counterparts on the left.

Scientific evidence
How can you increase fertility, fight soil disease (including harmful fungi), avoid rose replant sickness, benefit seeds and new plants throughout their lifespan? It appears the answer really does lie in the soil, Nature's way.Rootgrow™ and drought tolerance

Fungus - not always the Bogeyman!
For millions of years, over 80% of the world's plants have been benefiting from a naturally occurring symbiotic relationship with mycorrhizal fungi. The fungi create a much deeper root system than the plants it hosts with: fetching loads more nutrients from the soil, which it swaps in return for plant sugars it cannot create itself: this is mutually beneficial to both life forms. The resultant plants outperform their stand-alone neighbours.

Read all about it!
Don't just take our word for it - read the science journals and national press articles linked on this page, including contributions from the RHS's own John Ardle, the researchers Dr. John Dodd and Dr. Miroslav Vosatka, Ryton Organic Garden trials, plus other RHS sites at Wisley and Hyde Hall, Kew Gardens, Monty Don, large scale successful trial sites including the White Horse Wood project in Kent, and more.

This is not a plug for GM science - read how existing plant species produce better results with restored mycorrhizal balances.

RHS - The Garden [.pdf]

Use the weblinks to read more - then come back and order Rootgrow™ products from East of Eden Plants and get them mailed to your door.

Rootgrow™ in sachets
Easy to use - each sachet of dry mix is enough to treat 1 x 15 litre pot (or pro-rata) for roses and garden plants, including house plants

Available in 75g size Buy

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Rootgrow™ mix for roses and garden plants mycorrhiza preparation

New! The ideal accompaniment to Rootgrow™ products - Rootfood

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Rootfood™ humate mix ideal wherever you use Rootgrow™ mycorrhizal preparations

Links to scientific papers

Role of mycorrhysal fungi - Dr John Dodd [.pdf]

Thyme Rose paper - Dr Miroslav Vosatka
[.doc]

RHS - Jon Ardle
[.pdf]

Roses and drought tolerance
[.pdf]

Better quality cuttings [.pdf]

Links to the national press

Monty Don -
The Guardian [.doc]

Daily Telegraph [.doc]

Organic Gardner September 2004 [.doc]

Kent Messenger article [.jpg]

Trials

Pictorial trial results thyme roses paper [.doc]

The White Horse Wood Three Years On [.doc]

Trials with bedding pictures [.doc]

For a wide range of applications from pots to mature trees see the preparation guide
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Rootgrow™ creates root systems that help combat drought - as well as feeding the plants in seedbeds, pots, hanging baskets and all soils.

Exceptions for Rootgrow™ and Rootgrowplus™ ~
Rootgrow™ and RootgrowplusT does not work with ericaceous plants: Heathers, nor Rhododendruns, Azaleas or Brassicas.

For all trees, Coniferous and Native Trees,etc. use Rootgrowplus™.

~ Use Rootgrow™ and Rootgrowplus™ everywhere else

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