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Decorating Your Tree Safely This Christmas

As the old song goes, Christmas “is a wonderful time of the year”…………..

The days of decorating a small plastic tree in the lounge room are long gone, and decorating a home for Christmas could sometimes be compared to a military operation.  The living areas are often adorned with lights, tinsel and a few Santa’s in an explosion of colour, which then leads us to the outside of the home and the focus of our blog today!

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Preparing for Storm Season with Some Strategic Pruning

Summer is almost here and with the hot weather comes the start of the storm season.  Whether you believe in climate change or not the summer period always brings its fair share of intense rain and powerful storms.  If you live in the north of Australia, you can add the risk of cyclones into the mix.  Whilst we can’t prevent the storms, there are always some good strategies that can be employed to mitigate the damage caused by the big winds and rain.

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Planning Your Acreage or Domestic Garden - Important Considerations

Whether your building a new home or planning a makeover of your existing property, you’ll need to give some thought to the layout and design of your garden.  Depending on the theme and size of the property there are a few things to consider so you achieve a good outcome.

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Quality VS Cost are Important When Deciding on Tree Services

We’ve often said that proper maintenance of tree assets is important to ensuring longevity, and to minimise unnecessary expenses from fallen branches and debris.  Proper tree maintenance also protects buildings, homes, fences, and people from potential hazards. There are plenty of unqualified, inexperienced, uninsured, and poorly equipped people who aren’t arborists, and trade as tree loppers or maintenance services. The dangers of using these poor-quality services are real, and the potential financial cost and hardship just isn’t worth the risk.

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Tree Removal, Lopping and Prunning: They Aren’t the Same Thing!

Spring is here and wherever you may live, the explosion of colour and scents can be breathtaking.  There’s nothing like walking through the garden and admiring how the warmer weather brings the trees, bushes, and flowers to life.  It’s usually at that point that you start to think about doing maintenance on the large trees that may exist in your back yard.

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How Arborist Reports Help Council’s and Property Owners

Today’s blog is all about Arborist Reports and their value to local councils and land owners. We’ve often spoken about the importance of maintaining your trees, and whether it’s a single plant or hundreds of large trees dotted throughout public parklands, the message is the same.

Obtaining a formal arborist report on one or more trees provides the land owner with a range of benefits.

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Protecting Your Tree Assets Through Surgery

We’ve often spoken about good tree maintenance using thinning and pruning techniques as well as yard placement is important to protecting your valuable asset over the longer term. Sometimes, through disease, wilful damage, previous bad maintenance decisions, or just plain bad luck the life of your valuable tree asset could be in danger.

So, what’s the solution?

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Insurance For Arborists And Tree Services – Why It Matters!

Inviting any trade services into your home involves a range of assumptions.

They include the assumption the ‘tradie’ has the skills and experience to complete the task you're paying them to do professionally, and they’ll use the appropriate and well-maintained equipment.

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Why Jamie Nairn Knows What He is Talking About?

Will I get value for money?

Do the guys pruning that gum tree in the back yard know what they are doing?

Will I end up with half a tree through my lounge room wall?

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When You See The Old Ute and Ladder – Run! Getting The Right Tree Services

Finding someone to prune, lop or remove a large tree is easy! But, at what cost?

Professional tree maintenance services are about protecting your other assets as much as it’s about removing or pruning that large tree in the back yard.

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Things to Consider When The Tags Says “Grows to 15 Metres”

There’s nothing like walking through the parklands in your suburb or town and looking up into the canopy of large native trees that provide shade for picnic’s and children playing.

You can’t help being impressed by their size and beauty. It’s usually at this point that you have what is sometimes called a ‘light bulb’ moment.

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Why Chain Saws and Ladders Don’t Mix

So, you’ve decided the time is right to do some maintenance work on that tree in the back yard. You own a ladder and chain saw and are thinking about doing the work yourself.

But, at what cost?

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The Beginners Guide to Tree Lopping

Maintaining your tree assets involves more than just watering and fertilising.

Once the tree grows to a sizable height and width, it will need ongoing maintenance that involves pruning, height reduction or thinning.

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How Often Do I Need to Prune My Trees

Maintaining your tree assets involves more than just watering and fertilising.

Once the tree grows to a sizable height and width, it will need ongoing maintenance that involves pruning, height reduction or thinning.

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Toowoomba, The Arborist and Wood Rot

Whilst Toowoomba is known as the ‘garden city’, and anyone visiting in spring will attest to the explosion of colour caused by the incredible flora on display.

There are also many regions across Australia that show similar beauty in their flora and native trees.

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If You Don’t ‘Lop’ Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later

Spring is here, and wherever you may live, the explosion of colour and scents can send you into sensory overload!

There’s nothing like walking through the garden and admiring how the warmer weather brings it to life.

"I must prune and thin out that tree before it gets out of control"

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The Tree Lopper V The Arborist

It’s a common misconception that a ‘tree lopper’ and an ‘Arborist’ are one and the same.

However, nothing could be further from the truth. When engaging a professional to manage your valuable tree assets and protect your property and buildings, knowing the difference will save you a lot of money and inconvenience.

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Navigating the Path Around Tree Protection Rules.

Navigating the path around tree protection laws requires an understanding of the complex web of legislation that exists from state to state, and even from the local authority to local authority.

Before undertaking any tree management work or considering the removal of a whole tree, you need to be certain the work is allowed under local or state laws.

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