by Mark Roberts | Aug 23, 2021 | Trees
I was asked to give a presentation on tree pruning to a group of gardeners. Commercial Gardeners, so not passionate homeowners or obsessive vegetable growers, this was a talk to a single employer with 50 employees. For most of them being a gardener was a job title,...
by Mark Roberts | Jul 14, 2021 | How to, Trees
Even before the internet and televised sport there were armchair experts. When it comes to plants every man with a dog and retired lady who makes tea has a ‘how to’ on pruning; some of these are good, some of these are not that bad but most are just wrong. In...
by Mark Roberts | Jun 2, 2021 | How to, Trees, Uncategorized
I began my career as a horticulturist in the late 1980’s, it wasn’t intentional, it just kind of happened. In the 90’s I left the dirt and got into the trees and by the 2000’s I moved into education. During that time I had become involved in an American based...
by Mark Roberts | May 22, 2021 | Nature, Trees
Recently I have had cause to rue the age of the arboriculture industry here in New Zealand; rue not being word one normally would or indeed should use, but it seemed better than bewail or lament. Anyway, I was feeling a bit stink about the arboricultural industry in...
by Mark Roberts | Mar 22, 2021 | Nature, Soil and soil science, Trees
When I was a young horticulturalist each and every soils teacher seemed to say something along the lines of ‘soil is soil and dirt is what you get under your fingernails’, some of them would go on to say that they were taught that, but it ‘reflected...
