Laser cutting is often regarded as a modern manufacturing process, used in all sorts of applications from range finding, to medical surgery, to manufacturing. But if you think back, many of us will remember when lasers really were cutting edge (pardon the pun!), seen...
Originally, trees became part of the urban landscape usually as remnant trees; trees that were part of a previous rural landscape and had been incorporated into the expanding urban landscape.
Urban sprawl is taking over our green spaces. With an ever increasing population it cannot be helped and is no-one’s fault. It does however mean that survival is a battle for both our new and existing urban trees. To appreciate this fully, we need to understand the...
Why greater urban greening makes financial as well as environmental sense. Since the 1950’s the population of the EU (including the UK for 98% of that time) has increased by 33%, yet the total hard surface area of our cities has grown by more than double that – 78%! I...
During one particularly dank and grey day between Christmas and New Year, for want of nothing better to do I decided on an impromptu road trip, and hastily found the last available room at a traditional country inn off the beaten track in Northumberland (on the edge...
Design for the tree that it could become. Adding trees to our urban environment is a good thing. They are good for not only our health and well-being, but also that of the planet. The only problem is that trees are by nature, forest plants, they like room to spread...
TO GUIDE RATHER THAN CONSTRICT We are often asked, what root barrier should we use? Or should we use a root barrier at all? Or like earlier today… “The tree pit has been spec’ed with non-permeable root barrier around all four walls of the tree pit. Is this right?”. In...
How gardens, no matter how small can help offset the stress of life. As we move optimistically into 2021, we cannot help but look back on 2020 with bewilderment. As far as years go it was a shocker of a roller-coaster; not one of ups and downs – more lurching from...