Winter is nearly over, and you can feel the energy of spring all around us. As you move around the plateau, look for the Red Cedars,...

The weather is finally drying out after months of soaking rain. Anyone driving around Maleny recently would’ve noticed that many of the...

Spring has sprung, and it is probably the most colourful time of year up here on the Maleny plateau. You’ve got the ornamental, exotic...

It feels like winter has arrived again, and the endemic red cedars, Toona ciliata, and white cedars, Melia azedarach, and many of the...

Well, the days are getting shorter, and there is a refreshing cool crispness to the air as the worst of the summer storm season recedes...

Happy New Year! Last year we had over 3 m of rain in Maleny, which has resulted in spectacular growth rates for the vegetation across the...

The days are finally starting to warm up, and it is then that we realise the value of shade trees in our built environment. Trees,...

I’m writing this article as the first major weather event of the season hits the Sunshine Coast. It’s following on from recent and...

Still reeling from the calamitous weather events. What surprises me is that people were surprised by the flooding and heavy rain. Hello…...

I feel so blessed to be able to work with trees. I read recently that forest-bathing has been approved in Japan as an activity that...

At the time of writing, we are coming out of the rain event that inundated large areas of New South Wales and southern Queensland. As...

It was immensely gratifying recently to carry out a tree assessment/property visit for a long-standing client of 13 years. I was able to...

I am an arborist, or arboriculturalist. That means I am a horticulturalist who specializes in large woody plants, i.e. trees and shrubs....

I am now the proud owner of a vehicle which reads the outside temperature as you drive along, something the Barina could never do without...

Thankfully the virus hasn’t really affected our tree work. We are still joyfully doing all the normal things we do at this time of year,...

Whenever there is a situation like Covid 19, I think to myself "What would a tree do?". When a tree is faced with a serious infection it...

We recently had the pleasure of pruning and shaping a large Lemon-scented gum tree, Corymbia citriodora, in Maleny, see photo. The...

As I predicted, the first good storm of the year has resulted in quite a lot of tree damage. This prediction was possible because I have...

I'm writing this just before Christmas, and I got thinking about Christmas Trees....

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