Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
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on gardeners world a few weeks back Monty was planting some pears.
He'd got them dry root [...]
Ken Muir do dry root trees. Or, they did.

OT, with word-fancier hat on: I haven't consciously met the
expression "dry root" before, having always used "bare-rooted". Can I
assume from this exchange that it's a widespread alternative?

Mike.