Today at Thor's Trees, three of our teams of highly skilled tree surgeons removed a very large dead cedar tree. It’s unknown to us as to what caused this beautiful giant Cedar to die, although we do know the tree has been dead for over two years. Cedars generally have a high resistance to ill […]
Chalara dieback of ash is a relatively new disease to Britain, the first case only having been reported in 2012, following a delivery to a nursery from the Netherlands. As of June 2018 there were 1,401 known cases across the UK. Not a massive number, but significant in its spread in that short time. Should […]
Do you have a conifer tree in your garden? Here are a few tips on how to care for your conifer tree. Leylandii trees are a popular tree to have in your garden. With over 55 million Leylandii trees they are soon to be one for every person in the UK. Leylandii trees can grow […]
Here are a few tips on how to tell if your tree is dead in winter … Trees are continuously fighting, pests, diseases and pathogens. Over millions of years, they have built an extraordinary ability to withstand damaging agents that are ever-present in their surroundings. Although all trees do eventually die. When in spring, summer […]
It’s hotting up… The skies are blue with hardly a wisp of cloud to be seen, and the forecasters are telling us it’s going to be a heatwave. While the natural reaction to this may be to don your shorts, scoop buckets, spades and the kids into the car for a 10-hour drive to the […]
Today it is very unlikely that you will have a mature elm in your garden. It’s a shame, but successive waves of Dutch elm disease have devastated the British population of this once prolific tree on our isle. So, if you have any young elm saplings in your garden you’ll want to do your bit […]
The British summer can be an unpredictable season. You know where you are with autumn, it’ll be cold and wet, in winter it’ll be cold and wet, and in spring it’ll be wet and slightly less cold. But summer can be so many things. There could be summer storms, sweltering drought and even flash floods. […]
Many green-fingered gardeners or weekend horticulturists may question whether they need to employ the services of a North London tree surgery company – after all, there’s little that can’t be done these days with access to the right equipment and Google/YouTube. However, the fact is that not only is the equipment hazardous for the untrained […]
When I was a boy we had a giant oak tree at our school. Of course, we were not allowed to climb it, but – boys being boys – that didn’t stop us. Then one day, during a particularly heavy storm, it was struck by lightning. For hundreds of years that tree had grown quietly […]
The ash tree is the third most common tree in Britain, behind the birch and the oak, according to the Woodland Trust. It is found across many different ecological zones, from the Arctic Circle to Turkey, but this staple of the English woodland is currently under threat from a biological attack. Firstly, let’s identify your […]