Aborists

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What we believe

Standing and fallen deadwood
encourage a diverse ecosystem.

Tidiness is the action most likely to reduce the diversity of wildlife using your garden. Deadwood is the element most commonly missing from gardens. It's seen as untidy, unsafe and unnecessary and yet it is an essential part of any ecosystem with trees. When wood dies and decays it releases most of the energy it accumulated during its life. This powers a myriad of beings doing the decaying and of course those that eat them. Furthermore, you may well be doing the very trees you like a disfavour by removing fallen deadwood which would otherwise support fungi which are either intimately beneficial to living trees, or which help exclude detrimental fungi such as Honey fungus. Arborists can help you retain some of this missing link and even if you can't provide home grown deadwood, they could always bring you some from elsewhere to enrich your garden. ).It makes little sense for you to pay good money to "tidy" your garden at the expense of birds and animals that could give you so much pleasure. (See also the section about recycling cut wood at origin)