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Leave that tree alone!
A few days ago I had one of those surveys where I spent as long dispelling commonly-held misunderstandings of trees as surveying them! Whether its a certainty that Ivy kills trees or an insistence tha... Read More
Tree Preservation Orders – help is available!
In 2003 I was lucky enough to be contracted to carry out the Tree Preservation Order review for Peterborough City Council. Although the project was not completed at the time due to budgetary constra... Read More
A 600-year old Oak in New Jersey
My wife has relatives in New Jersey, USA. Her Auntie has kept newspaper articles for me on the decline of what is reputedly ‘the oldest tree in America’. Last year the White Oak beside the Bas... Read More
The myth of Ivy
Not a week goes by when I don’t deal with Ivy in trees. It is one of the most commonly misunderstood interactions between one plant and another despite the fact that the interaction of Ivy with tr... Read More
The status of a tree
My attention this week has again been turned to the TPO system. So many Local Authorities are administering TPOs which are simply not enforceable. They continue to take applications for works that p... Read More
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