Getting Your Yard Ready for Spring
Spring is calling – what to pay attention? Our gardens include hard spaces and paths and sometimes play areas which we clean up after...
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Martin Ford
- Jan 21
- 2 min
Designing Three Dimensionally Gives All-season Pleasure
When we ask for a design for a garden or other landscape setting, we are normally given a two-dimensional drawing showing the placement...
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Martin Ford
- Jan 14
- 2 min
Privacy and City Noise Dampening
We tend to think fences make “good neighbors” – they are in effect walls which define the property line for both parties but provide no...
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Martin Ford
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
How Do You Put A Dollar Value On Trees?
In these changing times, “What is the dollar value of trees?” is an emerging question. How do you put a financial number on the health...
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Martin Ford
- Nov 26, 2021
- 2 min
Go Real or Go Fake
We’d like to bring a ‘real’ tree into our home during Christmas. It has a lovely scent and it revives our connection to nature. But the...
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Martin Ford
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
The many values of trees around our homes
It has become widely acknowledged that established trees will add between 6 - 11% to the market value of your home – especially in the...
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Martin Ford
- Aug 24, 2021
- 3 min
Pocket Woodlands® And Why They Enable Trees To Thrive
Today, when we grow trees in nurseries, they are often placed in a pot of loose ‘soil medium’ where both their water supply and nutrient...
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Martin Ford
- Jul 21, 2021
- 2 min
Watering trees is essential in summer heat...
The trees we plant in our gardens and streets have been grown in nurseries where their roots have been pruned and controlled to create a...
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Martin Ford
- Jul 15, 2021
- 2 min
120 Year Old 2"x6"
A 2”x6 “which is a 120 year old tree? Some of the 2x6 lumber I purchased recently weighed differently when I picked it up and here in...
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Martin Ford
- Jun 29, 2021
- 1 min
Community Benefits and Real-world Examples - The Last Video In Our Series
A Case Study shows the dramatic difference between traditionally planted trees and those planted using the Pocket Woodlands system. View...
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Martin Ford
- Jun 21, 2021
- 2 min
Serenity
Why do we think of a garden as being a peaceful place to ‘be’? Gardens were created to bring the feeling of nature, the nature we used to...
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Martin Ford
- Jun 16, 2021
- 1 min
Pocket Woodlands® Influences on Climate Change - The Fifth Video In Our Series
A Pocket Woodlands® design is the fastest way to cool our cities and reverse the impact of climate change and global warming. View all...
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Martin Ford
- Jun 14, 2021
- 2 min
Taproot – the word describes its importance!
Literally, the word ‘tap’ describes both essential functions, that this first root to grow from a seed is designed to do - go deeply into...
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Martin Ford
- Jun 9, 2021
- 1 min
Benefits of a Pocket Woodlands® Design - The Fourth Video In Our Series
In this video we discuss the host of benefits that grow from choosing a Pocket Woodlands® design. Check out all the videos from this...
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Martin Ford
- May 31, 2021
- 1 min
Biodiversity - The Third Video In Our Series
In this video we explain how a Pocket Woodlands™ design helps to promote plant biodiversity that helps prevent the large loss of trees in...
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Martin Ford
- May 27, 2021
- 1 min
Roots & Soils - Our Second Video In Our Series
A New Way To Grow Healthy Trees YouTube Playlist Watch the next video in our series "Roots and Soil". Follow this video series on our...
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Martin Ford
- May 18, 2021
- 1 min
A New Way To Grow Healthy Trees Video Series
Watch our video series on Pocket Woodlands® YouTube Channel "A New Way To Grow Healthy Trees". We will be adding a new video to this...
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Martin Ford
- May 3, 2021
- 2 min
Pocket Woodland design gives our landscapes 3 dimensional interest
The essential element of the Pocket Woodlands design is a raised soil bed to enable rapid root establishment - vital for healthy and long...
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Martin Ford
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
Reasons to Have a Group of Trees as Part of our Small City Gardens
A grove of trees can be three or more trees of various sizes, but when we also add shrubs that grow to be 10' and 20' high, such as...
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