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At maturity trees can have a wide range of canopy forms, created naturally as opposed to created by training/pruning.

I will explain the forms of canopies in the next blog, this one is concerned with which you can purchase trees.

If you have done the above (and are in the northern hemisphere), your tree is still in a period of establishing.  When a tree is...

Buds swelling and leaf burst is triggered by increasing day length and warmth. It is a chemically induced event.  It is not a...

If you can recall the scene in Gold Finger where the girl is painted in gold and dies, the cause of her death is the same as what...

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Pleached trees are specimens whose canopies have been trained laterally.  When fruit trees are trained like this it is called...

The answer is invariably yes.  

Here are some of the reasons why it does not take place:

1) As native trees have been present from just after the last ice age, they are a essential part of our ecological make up.  They...

Once the right variety of tree has been selected for the planting location:

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In the most of the UK winter has been notable only by it's absence.

Firstly deciduous trees are the ones that lose their leaves in winter, apart from the conifers that are deciduous, the one that...

Tis the season (in temperate climates in the Northern Hemisphere) for slippery paths and roads.

To understand this, we think it is best to go for a walk in the woods. What is underfoot? A covering of composting vegetation,...

In the northern hemisphere in it is Autumn/Fall.