by Mark Roberts | Nov 18, 2021 | How to, Trees
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...
by Mark Roberts | Sep 7, 2021 | Nature, Trees
As you read this you are probably sitting in a room that is hollow; a building with walls and empty internal spaces, rooms. You could be in your work vehicle; a hollow structure with outside walls and an inside space, the cab. You may well be drinking from a cup, can...
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...
