Team Game

While some people think that the really glamourous bit of tree surgery is done by the tree surgeons when they’re working at height, the bit that customers see first and often value most is the way that the job is cleared up afterwards.  It’s what we receive most...

Spring is in the Air

Today, it feels like Spring might be just round the corner.  Apart from the snowdrops and crocuses making an appearance, there was that indefinable scent of new season and definitely a cooing of pidgeons to be heard in the early morning, a sure sign that winter...

New Faces

In January we said goodbe to JB, who decided that tree surgery wasn’t for him in the long term.  He came to us as a friend of a friend and followed a apprenticeship leading to a level 2 Diploma Trees and Timber, at Sparsholt College.  At college for one day...

The Wood Wide Web

A new study shows that trees of different species can exchange large amounts of carbon via the fingal internet that connects their roots. In 1999, a team of scientists led by Christian Körner did what thousands of people do every Christmas: they wrapped...

Funky Funghi

We found this fabulous funghi just like this on dead wood at our yard this week. Called Coral Spot because after affected branches die they develop pinhead-sized coral-pink fungal pustules, is a disease caused by the fungus Nectria cinnabarina. It causes die-back of...

Hidden Decay

We have many, many repeat customers whose trees we have been looking after for nearly twenty years.  Most of our customers love their trees and because of that, know when there have experienced a physical change that might need a little more investigation. ...