How severe heat followed by huge rainfall can affect trees’ health – and your safety (Video Tip)
How can severe dry weather followed by a heavy downpour of rain cause a safety hazard in trees’ branches? With all this wild weather we’ve been having, here’s a word of warning from Bohmer and why pruning can help prevent any accidents. HEAR HIS TIP HERE
Car Carnage following Wild Wollongong Winds
Check out the damage this Eucalyptus Tree did to these workers’ cars after the wild winds around Wollongong recently! Just another day in the life of an Arborist… Luckily they owners had only just parked their cars to go into the office – then this happened. No-one was hurt, thankfully. We were called […]
Bushfires: How best to protect your home
We’re often asked what the best ways are to prepare and protect your home from bushfires – here’s some excellent advice from the RFS (at their website rfs.nsw.gov.au) we’d strongly advise you to take some time out to read (a few minutes could save your home, lives and livelihood!). Even if your plan is to […]
How heartbreaking it’s been for us to watch our neighbouring communities and local environment destroyed by bushfires
Check out Bohmer’s recent enews here (it’s not all doom and gloom!): tinyurl.com/spkc5qq
Hear how the bushfires have impacted our trees – and what hope there is for their future
Five million hectares of NSW forest have been burned in the recent bushifres, which is over half the entire forest and well over twice as much anything recorded before, so the scale of the problem is huge. Listen below to the fascinating interview with Dr Owen Price, from UOW’s School of Environment & Life Sciences […]
How we help the planet by replanting trees that must be removed
Did you know, every time we must remove a tree – usually due to ill-health, safety or Council requirements – we donate $s towards a tree to be replanted in its place via the excellent Australian organisation, the Carbon Neutral Charitable Fund. We feel it’s particularly important, especially when our current natural landscape and animals’ […]
Aussie natives that make the perfect alternative Christmas tree
Australia is home to over 24,000 different species of native plants. Why not use one as your Christmas tree this year instead of the traditional choice of pine? Check out The Australian Geographic’s Top 6 Picks for an Alternative Aussie Christmas Tree: Norfolk Island Pine Wollemi Pine South Esk Pine Wooly Bush Geebung Bush Christmas […]
Feel Good this Christmas Season: The top bushfire charities that need your donations
How you can donate and help with the NSW and QLD Bushfires Firefighters, charities and animal rescue groups are accepting donations amid the bushfires. NSW Rural Fire Service volunteers Bob (left) and Greg Kneipp pictured near a fire at Torrington, near Glen Innes. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP Due to the scale and ferocity of bushfires sweeping […]
When trees’ hearts rot // Ask Bohmer
This piece of wood was cut down and, as you can see, the centre of it is rotten – which is known as heartwood rot. While some people may associate the term with a stale relationship, heartwood rot is when a tree has a fungal infection that causes the centre of the trunk and branches […]
BOUNDARY LINES & TREES // ASK BOHMER
Q: I am building a new home (knock down/rebuild) and need to remove some trees however we’re having issues with Council regarding determining which trees are on boundary lines. Please could you help! Bohmer says: That’s a really difficult one to answer, especially when the Council think the trees are on their boundary line, which […]
