Arboriculture Trade Show 2019 Arb-Aid England to the left & Arb-aid Wales to the right. Together caring for Britains trees.

Arboriculture Trade Show 2019 Arb-Aid England to the left & Arb-aid Wales to the right. Together caring for Britains trees.   Westonbirt, The National Arboretum   An amazing back drop of Firs, Maples, Cedars etc. Boys and their toys.   Single Rope Technique (SRT) display, anchor points and arial rescue linkages.   Non-friction base anchor system. …

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Mature Copper Beech Crown Reduction – Conservation area.

Mature Copper beech (17 metre height), pre- reduction whilst in winter dormancy.   Completed 2 metre height crown reduction.   Canopy reduction towards the building and windows to allow more light into the living area. 3-4 metres removed on this side of the Copper Beech, whilst maintaining a good crown balance.      Raising the …

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Conservation Area – Hedgerow Maintenance, Tree Surgeon Pembrokeshire.

8 x Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra) Group Tree Reduction. Standing at a 20 meter + height to the west of the property, the trees are screening winter sun light before lunch time reducing and shading the rear garden in the summer afternoons, shading the back rooms of the house. The group of Elm’s were originally mature Elm’s, but …

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The Oven Tree

Cherry Self seeder Clearing an old scrap yard for development and we came across this amazing self seeder, a mature Cherry tree (Prunus spp)  in an old oven. Was it from a Cherry Pie? Photos by Adrian, a Pembrokeshire Tree Surgeon’s Busman’s Holiday in Coventry with his son Joshua. The arching of main stem is most likely as …

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Common Oak 15% Crown reduction,with a Pembrokeshire Tree Surgeon.

This Oak (Quercus robur) was formally a hedgerow tree and has been previously worked on 20 years ago or more, with large limbs (scaffold limbs) to the the lower canopy being removed to the left and write of the photo. A Visual Tree Assessment (VTA) was carried out, issues were monitored and a maintenance plan …

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Chicken of the Woods, with a Pembrokeshire Tree Surgeon.

Scientific name: Laetiporus sulphurous Common name: Chicken of the woods, Sulphur polypore Photos and words by Adrian Dowling, a Pembrokeshire Tree Surgeon 0f Arb-Aid Tree Care Specialists. Part of a Visual Tree Assessment (VTA) that was carried out in late summer last. Brown rot was evident on this veteran Oak (Quercus robur) with a major stem removed or …

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Thinning the Crown of a Mature Sycamore, with a Pembrokeshire Tree Surgeon.

Sycamore (Acer psuedoplatanus), 22m tree thinned 20% and reducing the height by 3m. Thinning out brought the canopy back from the garden, letting more light in and maintaining a good screen/privacy from the multi-storey carpark. The canopy to the left is a little bare, from removing branches damaged from squirrels eating the bark to get …

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