Roots

The Critical Factor for Tree Growth

The Critical Factor for Tree Growth

Design for the tree that it could become.  Adding trees to our urban environment is a good thing. They are good for not only our health and well-being, but also that of the planet. The only problem is that trees are by nature, forest plants, they like room to spread...

Sympathetic Use of Root Barriers

Sympathetic Use of Root Barriers

TO GUIDE RATHER THAN CONSTRICT We are often asked, what root barrier should we use? Or should we use a root barrier at all? Or like earlier today… “The tree pit has been spec’ed with non-permeable root barrier around all four walls of the tree pit. Is this right?”. In...