by Mark Roberts | May 4, 2022 | Trees
Back in the day, in fact, even before the day, we all knew that old tradesmen were mad. It was just an accepted fact, fire is hot, ice is cold, Auckland has traffic problems, and old tradesmen are mad. And yes they were all men, tradeswoman didn’t go mad, because...
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...
