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Why topping hurts trees

29 July 2021 johnharpham

Topping is perhaps the most harmful tree pruning practice known. Yet, despite more than 25 years of literature and seminars…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Arboricultural Consultants, Tree Care, Tree Work

Ash Dieback. Preventions, cures, and narrow minds.

12 July 2021 johnharpham

Originally this post was just going to be about ash dieback and has sat as a draft for months, but…

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Posted in: Plant health, Tree fungi both good and bad Filed under: Ash Dieback, Plant Health Care, Tree Care

Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner! The death kneel for conkers or a curable problem?

27 April 2021 johnharpham

Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner, The nasty little so and so responsible for sending all our conker trees brown and making…

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Posted in: Plant health, tree care Filed under: Conkers, Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner, Plant Health, Plant Health Care, Tree Care

Browning Patchy Conifers?

21 April 2021 johnharpham

Have you got brown patches appearing in your conifer hedges or your neighbours?Conifer mite and Cypress aphid are both sap-sucking…

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Posted in: Plant health Filed under: Conifer Aphid, Conifer Mite, Plant Health Care, Tree Care

Spring Has Sprung

21 March 2021 johnharpham

Spring has officially Sprung and with it the spring tree care season has started. To celebrate this, we’re offering 10%…

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Posted in: Plant health, tree care, Working week Filed under: Air Spade, Spring, terravent, Tree Care

Terravent or Airspade, which ones best?

14 February 2021 johnharpham

In the tree care world, we have a limited number of machines that actually have a pro-active benefit on a…

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Posted in: Plant health, Uncategorized Filed under: Air Spade, Ethical Arboriculture, terravent, Tree Care

Why we shouldn’t plant more trees.

30 July 2020 johnharpham

A slightly controversial title for a tree company, especially considering the constant rhetoric that we need to plant more trees…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Ethical Arboriculture, Peterborough, Tree Care, tree planting

How to kill a tree, otherwise known as lets ignore all the standards we claim to work to!

15 July 2020 johnharpham

Ranting blog post today. We’re constantly told to plant more trees to save the environment, big utilities companies brag about…

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Posted in: Tree preservation order Filed under: bs3998:2010, killing trees, roots, tree preservation orders

The Terravent, or Fracking for Tree Care!

30 June 2020 johnharpham

As the title suggests, after twenty years of hunting, reading articles, scientific journals, debating and missing out on machines, I’ve…

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Posted in: Plant health, Working week Filed under: Ethical Arboriculture, Peterborough, soil aeration, soil decompaction, terravent, Tree Care, Tree Work

Soil Amendments and Boosting soils

12 September 2019 johnharpham

Autumns just about here and we’re gearing up for the start of the soil amendments and de-compaction season. That means…

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Posted in: Plant health, Working week Filed under: bio char, soil amendments, soil decompaction, Tree Work

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