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Tree Surgery Service
We offer a complete tree surgery service, including felling, pruning, and arboreal advice. Fully insured and all pruning removed from site.
Tree tips
- Never prune walnut trees in winter; they will bleed for days or even weeks. Always prune them in full leaf.
- Any branches not looking well on a tree should be lopped off. A plant will always put its strength into its weakest parts, so the removal of these will enable the rest of the tree to flourish.
- If you have an old tree to which you are sentimentally attached, and which has to be felled, take a graft bud cutting before cutting it down. When it has been propagated you will able to replace the old tree with its clone in a different part of the garden.
- Try to save a tired old tree by pegging out a circle under the ends of the tree's branches. Use a dibber to make holes 6 cm wide and 16 cm deep, 30 cm apart on either side of the circle - you could easily end up with a hundred or more holes. Put a handful of granular fertilizer in each hole and fill up with compost. Water well if heavy rain is not forecast.
- It is possible to turn large bushes of Rhododendron ponticum into trees. Prune the branches until you have one main stem and after several seasons you should have a tree.
- Moving trees in the summer is often difficult because the leaves flag and die easily. Water the plant well and then spray it with diluted wallpaper paste (non-fungicidal). This helps reduce water loss and so will aid the tree's survival.
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