by Mark Roberts | Apr 11, 2017 | Trees, Uncategorized
There comes a point where you start to assume others know what you know. Not in a paranoid ‘they’re in my head’ kind of way, but simply because you take a piece of knowledge for granted. That knowledge ceases to be special to you, you know it, you have known it for so...
by Mark Roberts | Feb 17, 2017 | Trees
We have known for many years that trees communicate with each other, that their responses to insect and/or animal attack can be picked up by other trees. We know that the attacked tree can send out warning signals to other trees and these signals can be very specific;...
by Mark Roberts | Jan 9, 2017 | Trees
The Redwoods of Rotorua in New Zealand are arguably the most substantial and therefore the most important stand of Redwood trees outside of those on the Pacific coast of North America. Visit them you must, look but don’t touch. Over three and a half million people...
by Mark Roberts | Dec 19, 2016 | Trees
Star Wars has microscopic, intelligent lifeforms called midi-chlorians that live within the cells of all living beings. That’s science-fiction. Apparently, midi-chlorians influence the ‘force’, which is all important to the Star Wars story. Plants, on the other hand...
by Mark Roberts | Nov 24, 2016 | Trees
A quick Google search will tell you that an ’act of God’ is an event outside human control, an event where no one can be held responsible. It’s an old-school term with legal status. I agree that people should not be held responsible for unforeseeable natural...
by Mark Roberts | Nov 9, 2016 | Trees
Recently I gave a presentation at the New Zealand Arboricultural Association conference, I pointed out that stress is an external force or an emotional condition, and that it is incorrect to say a tree is ‘stressed’ when not talking about external forces. Trees don’t...
