Trees, Bees and Honey
The best and most expensive honeys in the world are made from the nectar collected from trees. Manuka honey is made from the nectar of the...
Read more
Deciding Where and How Much to Prune
Spring is in the air and it is time to think about getting back into the garden. Tree work should always be planned to maintain, as far as...
Read more
The Air that I Breathe
Almost every other car on the road in the UK is a diesel. Diesel engines emit two main pollutants: nitrogen dioxide (N02) and particulates, and...
Read more
Wine: Another Reason to be Thankful for Trees
We all know that the majority of fine wines are aged in oak barrels. But why are they? What are the advantages? What are the disadvantages? Are...
Read more
HELLIS Spring Seminars
Book Your Place: HELLIS Spring Seminars Come along and join us for the next in the series of HELLIS Seminars where we’ll be looking at the...
Read more
The Environmental Benefits of Amenity Trees
The Oxford Dictionary defines amenity as being ‘a desirable or useful feature’. One of the desirable features of trees is the environmental...
Read more
How Trees Can Benefit your Well-being
There is a growing body of scientific research that appears to confirm the health benefits of amenity trees, that is, trees which are planted to...
Read more
Why do Different Trees have Different Shaped Leaves?
There are over 60,000 different species of trees in the world and hundreds of different shapes of leaves – but why the different shapes?...
Read more