Conversations About Trees: Tree Care

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Australian eBook Publisher, May 20, 2016 - Gardening - 350 pages
Why You Shouldn’t Do Anything Before Reading This Book

What you knew about trees has changed. We now know more about how trees function after pruning, their responses to injuries, their inherent structural weaknesses, and from what have been done to them for a century, the best form of care emerges. Conversations About Trees (CAT) passes on practical knowledge and information with beneficial applications, and in doing so, improves tree care techniques. You don’t need a garden to own a tree. The whole outdoors, street trees, botanical gardens belong to us all and that’s where you can see firsthand good, poor and downright bad tree work. From visual examples presented learning why not caring for trees and bad tree work have terrible, wasteful outcomes but also make trees hazardous.

Knowing that trees come with inbuilt structural faults is part of what CAT highlights but also gives explanations. If you own a tree you will at some point be concerned about its health and might confuse that with its safety or you might be forced to remove the whole tree or part of it. CAT opens your eyes to the reality of best-case tree care. There are over 650 clear, colour pictures demystifying the processes of caring for young and old trees.

What is not known is how much money is spent on cases concerning trees causing death and damages. CAT bridges the gap between innocence and ignorance that by knowing just a little more about trees will not only save money but also potentially lives.

Pictures in this book help clarify tree care ideologies such as why trees do not recover from bushfires, or lack of treatment, to bad designs and poor or damaging pruning. See how injuries form and how through wounds trees fall apart and die. Read and see how best to avoid scenarios where trees are on a path to failure. Ivan discusses and shows you better ways to think about caring for your trees.

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