Hi pdragon70,Choosing a suitable tree for your garden depends on more than just required size. Planting a tree species in the wrong location can...
Any chance of a few pics, jakk, just so that we can see what we're advising you on?
If it's a national speed limit road then I think you may need full Chapter 8 carried out by a qualified person. Other than that some 'men at...
Hi Mrs Flowers.If you can host your photos on another website such as Flickr you can link to them here, using [ img] tags. Just a thought....
Religion is a man-made collection of rules and regulations. As man is faliable then so is man's religion. A belief in God or a god does not...
Chainsaws have an inertia chain brake built in that stops the chain from turning if the saw bangs something hard, or is activated by the user....
Hi jakk,Can I ask why it is you want the roots removed?Sticking rusty nails into the trunk or ringing the tree at the base is a slow, drawn...
Dagnabbit it all to the deepest depths of Hades!! :mad:
Training - Competence - PPE. That's the way it should be with any high risk undertaking, even amongst professionals. The arborist/tree...
The lack of PPE is not an issue, regardless of how affordable it may or may not be. What it comes down to is the ease of being able to hire or...
Kids, pikies, chavs, vandals... whatever they are, if the shed's locked or not they'll damage it. The wife and I had an allotment which got...
Hi all,A colleague of mine took a videophone film of me side pruning a huge spruce tree. Sorry for the poor quality of the footage. I used to...
Canker is only a problem if it is in the vicinity. Pruning in the spring/summer encourages the rising sap to cover the wound more quickly. Winter...
LMRR - Do you have many cuttings from your conifers and softwoods? It may be of benefit to create a new compost bin for the more difficult to...
Hi and welcome, Garden master. Hope you benefit from and enjoy this forum.
Hmm, the creeping buttercup and ragwort I'd have to disagree about - having had to undertake the backbreaking work of removing by hand from a...
The sooner Christmas comes and goes the better. Summer will soon be on the way again then!! :D
Hi Claire,Many trees have bacterial canker on their bark and leaves and suffer no ill effect. Kind of like humans that have the MRSA bacteria on...
Hi Paladin,As you can see from your own experience holly is a very hard tree to get rid off. You can smash it to bits and it'll still come back...
Hi Barbara,have you checked out this thread yet: Tree Self Diagnosis. It's a little self help guide I wrote up regarding tree health and allows...
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