Specialist help

The expression, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, relates to people who become falsely overconfident about their expertise in a certain subject if they possess a small amount of knowledge about it. As conversations go, this sort of thing is annoying if you are...

Pruning – one size does not fit all

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...

No secret to planting

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...