When it comes to trees there are equal and obvious differences. Cats and dogs, oaks and pines. What we expect from those trees and how we manage those trees to achieve that expected purpose should also be different.
When you plant a tree, you are planning for the future. Holding onto the past isn’t the answer, and there is no future in standing still.
There is a tree that I drive past on my way to work. I call it my tree, but that’s a stretch and calling it a tree isn’t much better. A green blob would be a more accurate description – a blob maybe 4m tall, khaki in colour with a crusty beige brown trunk. Hardly ...
As unfortunate situations go, I feel for the car owner. As he stood before his car with the Council’s tree lying on top of it, he couldn’t help but notice that the roots of the tree were missing...
Simple plant placement can dramatically improve the establishment and survival of your trees. And I’m not talking about planting depth or placement in the hole, I’m talking about proximity… but proximity to what?
The good old days weren’t always that good. We did what we did, and most of us were broken by 30; elbows, knees, lower back, wrists and ears. Seems we weren’t as bulletproof as we thought we were.
As an arborist, I have never grasped the concept of trees as a problem. A tree is a tree, in the same way that a spade is a spade, a brick is a brick, and the colour red is… red. These things are just things and while there is variation (considerable variation) the thing itself ...
I was becoming a mad tradesman. As the madness started to take hold part of me tried to stop it, but part of me couldn’t help itself. There were now two of me in the tree having an argument that nobody else could hear… A clear sign of madness.
If you don’t know what you don’t know, and you have confidence in your own judgment and ability how do you know when specialist help is required? How do you know if the job or task beyond your abilities?
Not only are we surrounded by hollow things that don’t fall down, but many of the hollow things that don’t fall down have holes in them too. Who would have thought?