Advice
What we tell people about their trees
The questions that come up on every site visit, answered properly: how rot gets into a tree and when it matters, what to do when a storm has been through, and what ash dieback means for the trees on your land.
Rot, decay and when a tree becomes dangerous
Every mature tree has some decay in it somewhere. Most of it is harmless and part of how a tree ages. Some of it is the reason a tree drops a limb onto a car on a still day or goes over in the first autumn gale. Knowing the difference is most of what a tree health check is about, and this article explains how we look at it.
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Storm damaged trees: what to do and what to leave alone
Last winter's storms, Storm Goretti among them, brought down more trees across Cornwall than any recent year, and much of our work for weeks afterwards was clearing them. Most people meet a damaged tree once or twice in a lifetime and have no idea what is safe. This is what we tell them.
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Ash is one of the commonest trees in Cornish hedgerows, creek side woods and gardens, and ash dieback is now in nearly all of them. It has changed our winter work more than anything else in recent years. Here is what to look for and how to think about an infected tree.
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