Trees, bees and urban insights: Stop farming your garden with constant forking!

Monday, April 28, 2014

Stop farming your garden with constant forking!

Is your garden service permanently doing this? You are not supposed to be 'farming' your garden!

Bury your boulders, create planting space and use low growing, soil stabilising, easily-grown plants. A layer of mulch and periodic watering are all that's necessary to maintain it. Not constant forking!

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Charles has become well known on South Africa's famous Garden Route for his work as an arborist or arboriculturist. He has a National Certificate in Horticulture and has practised in South Africa, the US and Europe.
It is only by talking to Charles on site that one begins to realise what an intricate science he is engaged in, the insight he has developed and why his services have grown so in demand. Charles comes from an artistic - and scientific - family and approaches his work like an artist – aesthetics playing a big role in his inspiration, just as science has in his professional approach. One of his greatest challenges in Plettenberg Bay and elsewhere has been to guide many clients out of a knee-jerk approach when dealing with trees and shrubs that seem ‘problematic’ – the “I can’t see THE VIEW…so cut it all down!” syndrome, or what Charles likes to call “urbanitis”. Uninformed owners of (often upmarket) urban properties (often with views) who are surprised and delighted to find what miracles are possible with knowledge, understanding and patience.