ROBERTS BLOG
All About Trees
“If the forest should disappear, civilization would become extinguished on earth. It is the duty of an enlightened community to plant trees, and to so care for them that posterity shall not suffer… ”
Joseph Decaisne (1873). French botanist
A journeyman is an old-school term for a worker who is skilled in a given trade, someone that had completed an apprenticeship but had not yet...
I have a wisteria that grows and grows, but where it goes nobody knows. I train it and shape it to follow a plan but it still it grows to follow its...
New Zealand Arborists can’t prune. For some, a generic sweeping statement like that will be offensive, but some will agree. If you’re a kiwi...
This actually has nothing to do with Covid-19 or Cholera, which the title is very loosely taken from. If you cast your mind back a few months, the...
Henry Louis Mencken is famous for many things including saying; “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong....
The Skype meeting was tedious and I found myself checking FaceBook. Checking FaceBook out of the corner of my eye; one can never look away from the...
- the control of exotic vegetation on Auckland's volcanic cones The volcanic cones of Auckland were taken from the Māori about 150 years ago; the...
Snake Oil is an old-school term for a cure-all potion, that in reality does nothing. If you are lucky the potion won’t make things worse but the...
Of the over 20 or so definitions of risk that exist by far the simplest is; the possibility of losing something of value. In terms of managing risk...
I have just spent the past two and a half days in the High Court; not as a cleaner or a criminal, but as an expert witness. I have provided evidence...
I’m not sure why, but work is all about roots at the moment – roots, roots and more roots; or fewer roots as the case may be, mainly because...
If you find yourself in Hawaii with some time to kill [April 30], pop along to the Sheraton, Waikiki and take in the Western Chapter Conference -...
