How to Plant a Tree

Thinking about planting a tree or trees in your yard? That's great!

Trees can provide you with so many wonderful benefits – cooling shade, beauty, fresh fruit and many more. But, to help a tree do all that it can do, you'll need to plant the right tree, in the right place, the right way. 

TreePeople has learned—from planting more than 2 million trees in the Los Angeles basin—to carefully match each species to its location. Nearly four decades of tree plantings have also perfected our techniques for putting trees in the ground.

We're happy to share what we've learned with you!

Steps to a successful tree planting

Learn more about the benefits of trees. Watch a video of how to plant a tree.

You can also get, free "on-the-job" training planting trees by volunteering to plant trees with us.