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I was astonished to find myself discussing with a commerical director of a nation volume housebuilder aftercare of their soft...

These are large trees, translocated as large as sites allow as ecological mitigation. Deadwood habitat is a rare resource, due to...

Clay soils, which also manifest themselves as “hard lawns” are not inherently bad, they have many nutrients locked up in them...

An American based client who looked after the internal plants in a famous casio in Las Vegas introduced us to a new word, that we...

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Healthy lawns, shrubs and trees are dependent on their symbiotic relationship with Soil Biology (also called the Soil Food Web).

Essentially it is because there is poor Soil Biology present in the soil. 50% of a healthy soil is air. Soil with poor Soil...

The swelling of buds and coming into leaf is a chemical driven response to spring, warmer temperatures, longer days. It is not a...

1) Plants do not like being in containers

How to mitigate against this.

Compacted ground harms trees. It restricts percolation of moisture, gaseous exchange and absorption of organic matter. The Soil...

From planting/ transplanting, the period until the tree has developed a root system equal to that of a natural tree and it can...

Mulching with woodchips is the closest that planted trees will get to being in a woodland.

Naturally trees benefit from their leaves, twice. Once to photosynthesise and to extract energy from the sun. Then when they fall...

The tubes and grilles covering them that appear next to newly planted trees are not for watering.

Soil is akin to a living organism, called the Soil Food Web, which is present in the soil. This takes composting organic matter...

Once a tree is planted or transplanted it will need help establishing.