London is built, in large part, on clay – and clay, as any structural engineer or experienced tree surgeon working in the capital will confirm, does not behave like other soils. It shrinks when it dries and swells when it…
Read moreFew disputes in residential Britain generate quite as much sustained ill will as the overgrown boundary hedge. In London, where properties are dense, gardens are modest, and the loss of natural light carries genuine consequences for quality of life, complaints…
Read moreWalk through Hyde Park, Victoria Park, or Bushy Park at almost any time of year, and the signs are hard to miss. Dark, rust-coloured stains bleeding down the bark of horse chestnuts, weeping lesions that mark the slow advance of…
Read moreEvery tree surgeon working in London has faced the moment: a client points to the dead wood in the crown of a mature oak and says, simply, “can you take that out?” The instinct to tidy, to reduce, to eliminate…
Read moreI woke up one morning in Clapham after a rough night of wind. My phone buzzed before my kettle even boiled. A client sent a photo of a cracked limb hanging over his shed, and his message said it all:…
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