Dec 1, 2022
From: BBC News, 06/10/22 Lovely to read recently about a council initiating a two-year project to plant more than 500 trees by March 2023 in urban areas of Great Yarmouth, as part of the Forgotten Places: Greening Coastal Towns and Cities initiative. Choosing the...
Nov 2, 2022
This summer hit a milestone in UK climate history. Records for extreme heat and low rainfall were broken as we experienced the hottest day on record. The effect on our health and economy was widely reported, but what effect do extreme heatwaves have on trees?...
Oct 6, 2022
Bamboo Forests, Japan From the article by Ebden Diskin 5/2/21, updated from 10/9/14 from www.matadornetwork.com NO ONE APPRECIATED the beauty of trees, and immortalised them in literature, more than J.R.R. Tolkien. “I am at home among the trees,” said Legolas the elf...
Sep 1, 2022
Dragon’s Blood Trees, Socotra Island From the article by Ebden Diskin 5/2/21, updated from 10/9/14 from www.matadornetwork.com NO ONE APPRECIATED the beauty of trees, and immortalised them in literature, more than J.R.R. Tolkien. “I am at home among the...
Aug 4, 2022
Wisteria Tunnels, Japan From the article by Ebden Diskin 5/2/21, updated from 10/9/14 from www.matadornetwork.com NO ONE APPRECIATED the beauty of trees, and immortalized them in literature, more than J.R.R. Tolkien. “I am at home among the trees,” said Legolas the...
Jul 7, 2022
There’s a crisis of resource in the industry. It has been coming for years as fewer and fewer young people come in the business of horticulture, forestry and agricuture. But now it is acute and we are all having to get very creative and focsued on how we...
Jun 6, 2022
Though tree surgery is, of course, about tree pruning and tree felling when needed or required, it is mainly about tree care. Most customers love their trees; put up with them when they’re a pain, worry about them when they seem unwell, fret when they misbehave by...
May 4, 2022
Primary Tree Surgeons was started by Andrew in 1997. A Basingstoke boy born and bred, we have always run the company from our base in north Hampshiore, despite personally moving house to South Oxfordshire in 2020. Almost all of our lovely domestic...
Apr 14, 2022
Sometimes there really are very few options when a tree has simply outgrown it’s space, but to fell it and start again. This is sometimes the case when we’re talking about Cupressus varieties that can grow very large indeed, and often relatively quickly. We...
Apr 5, 2022
Customers and passersby sometimes comment on (what looks like) aerial acrobatics undertaken by climbing arborists as they make their way around the tree in pursuit of the end goal – to prune or fell a tree professionally, safely and efficiently. ...
