Conservation Arborists

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What arborists can do

ADVISERS ON APPROPRIATE TREE MANAGEMENT

There is no single prescription for the management of trees – it all depends on what you want from your trees. However, don't forget that the restraints of statutory tree protection provisions of your Local Authority and your obligation to exercise a duty of care to others may moderate this.

In formal gardens, trees can often be more akin to architecture than wild things, particularly if they provide the setting for particular buildings or features - rather like a painting can be enhanced by the right frame. In such instances the shape of individual trees can be very important and demand pruning to suit.

Other gardens might adopt a less formal approach, with suggestions of spontaneity and an allusion to wildness; however, if space is restricted, and for most of us it is, then choice of species and their management can still be very important.

We prefer to see trees as one part of an ecosystem, supporting and being supported by a wide range of other living things, which give pleasure through their diversity.

Inevitably, conflicting requirements will have to be reconciled. Conservation arborists can point out the various available options and how they can be achieved, although they will probably try and persuade you to their own preferences