Shrubs, Trees, Foundations, (Underground drainage pipes?)

Hi All,

I periodically get asked the question "Is this planted too close to the house?". I can rarely give an authoritative answer, and usually say it is a specific area of expertise and it may be best to contact the local council.

Am I missing a trick

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Wholesale nurseries in East Anglia

Sadly, after many years of trading, Fordham Wholesale nursery (South east of Ely in Cambridgehshire) is closing in the summer, and I'm now starting to panic slightly as there doesn't seem to be another good wholesale plant nursery I can use instead. 

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Women in Arb

Hi all,

I noticed that there are not so many women working as Tree Surgeons. This prompted me to do some research.

It is a growing area, but women are often put off by not being able to get suitable equipment. This is a Catch 22 situation. Products w

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Is there any point in planting new trees?

Successive governments have made popular pledges to plant large numbers of new trees. But do these trees ever actually get planted and, where they do, does it ever achieve anything useful?

Woodlands have a vital role to play in our landscape. As well

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Using sugar post-planting to stimulate plant root growth

This is an extract from a 2004 jornal research paper on the effects of sugar when used after planting. International Society of Arboriculture 2004 Glynn C. Percival

It has long been accepted that drought-related problems are often responsible for poo

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STOLEN - Seven Unusual Specimen Olive Trees- Street Value £10k - Monday 27th January at 12.30pm

Villaggio Verde have had 7 specimen and rather unusual old Olive trees stolen on Monday 27th January at 12.30pm. The police suspect they were stolen to order. We need to find these wonderful and unusual forms as they were put aside for an RHS project

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Oak Processionary Moth caterpillar- Advisory to gardeners and tree surgeons

People in parts of London and Berkshire are being reminded by the Forestry Commission, Public Health England and local authorities not to touch caterpillars of the oak processionary moth, which are beginning to emerge in oak trees in these locations.

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Horticultural Business Development Manager

We are currently looking for an experienced Business Development Manager to join our team on a permanent basis. If you are interested in this role or know anybody that is looking for a job in management and horticulture please feel free to get in con

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Branch death: Trees to be culled

More than 200 trees will be removed from a Peterborough park as part of a review that followed the death of a teenager killed by a falling branch.

Full story : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-20595010

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Poole men 'plotted to cut down tree for sea view'

The owner of a Dorset auction house told a tree surgeon to cut down a protected tree to improve the sea views from his property, a court has heard.

Neil Davey, 51, of Davey and Davey Auctioneers, allegedly paid Thomas McGuire, 34, to fell the maritim

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Ash Tree

Hi i pricing up a job currently but in the spec its after a few ash trees can anyone suggest a good alternative ?

 

thanks

http:www.pdglandscapes.co.uk

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What's the oldest plant you've planted still thriving?

I recently asked on the Landscape Juice blog 'What's the oldest plant you've planted still thriving?'

So far I haven't had any responses. Maybe you missed the post or you are just not as old as me;-0))

What legacy have you left for future generations

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Transplanting palm trees

Hi...Does anyone have any experience or knowledge about transplanting palm trees?  Bearing in mind I'm thinking of 5-6ft ones which were planted about 5 years ago.... here in Yorkshire.

Thanks, Melissa

 

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New Threats to UK Tree Stock

A number of new pests and disease have been identified as affecting UK trees in the past few years, with more on the horizon. Most people will have spotted the defoliation caused by leaf miner moth on our horse chestnut trees. Various species of blee

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Artificial trees

Hi guys,

 

A friend that owns Crieff Visitor Centre up in Perthshire is looking for 3 or 4 4m tall artificial trees for an interior refurb of the restaurant.  Tasteful looking and not giant christmas trees!  

 

Can anyone recommend a company that sells t

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Raymond Blanc 'sorry' over restaurant's tree felling

Two historic trees were felled outside the entrance to his Oxfordshire restaurant that were subject to a preservation order!!

 

Come on - anyone worth their salt would of checked before even attempting to fell them and I don't think he done them himsel

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Gritting icy roads 'kills thousands of trees each year by starving them of moisture'

Another Daily Mail 'special' report (they are so good at wipping up a frenzy..:-0)

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358566/How-gritting-icy-roads-kill-thousands-trees-year.html#ixzz1EQd0LGGm

 

BUT there is truth in what they say a

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Tree Planting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11894742

Hi Folks,

Saw this story earlier, do you think it might make councils less likely to keep butchering the trees we already have?

Government launches £4.2m urban tree-planting plan

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Phytophthora hibernalis

Does anyone have any experience with Phytophthora hibernalis?The RHS lab at Wisley identified this in a specimen from a mature yew tree which has been subequently felled. As has one next to it also showing symptoms of sparse canopy cover and a brown

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Trees and neighbour's boundary

I'm after your opinions on this situation on behalf of a client. I appreciate that no-one here is a lawyer, but some advice from those who may have encountered a similar situation before would be great...We planted some silver birch trees in a garden

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