Martin FordApr 43 minGetting 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...
Martin FordJan 212 minDesigning Three Dimensionally Gives All-season PleasureWhen we ask for a design for a garden or other landscape setting, we are normally given a two-dimensional drawing showing the placement...
Martin FordJan 142 minPrivacy and City Noise DampeningWe tend to think fences make “good neighbors” – they are in effect walls which define the property line for both parties but provide no...
Martin FordDec 9, 20212 minHow 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...
Martin FordNov 26, 20212 minGo Real or Go FakeWe’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...
Martin FordNov 8, 20212 minThe many values of trees around our homesIt has become widely acknowledged that established trees will add between 6 - 11% to the market value of your home – especially in the...
Martin FordAug 24, 20213 minPocket Woodlands® And Why They Enable Trees To ThriveToday, when we grow trees in nurseries, they are often placed in a pot of loose ‘soil medium’ where both their water supply and nutrient...
Martin FordJul 21, 20212 minWatering 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...
Martin FordJul 15, 20212 min120 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...
Martin FordJun 29, 20211 minCommunity Benefits and Real-world Examples - The Last Video In Our SeriesA Case Study shows the dramatic difference between traditionally planted trees and those planted using the Pocket Woodlands system. View...
Martin FordJun 21, 20212 minSerenityWhy 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...
Martin FordJun 16, 20211 minPocket Woodlands® Influences on Climate Change - The Fifth Video In Our SeriesA Pocket Woodlands® design is the fastest way to cool our cities and reverse the impact of climate change and global warming. View all...
Martin FordJun 14, 20212 minTaproot – 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...
Martin FordJun 9, 20211 minBenefits of a Pocket Woodlands® Design - The Fourth Video In Our SeriesIn this video we discuss the host of benefits that grow from choosing a Pocket Woodlands® design. Check out all the videos from this...
Martin FordMay 31, 20211 minBiodiversity - The Third Video In Our SeriesIn this video we explain how a Pocket Woodlands™ design helps to promote plant biodiversity that helps prevent the large loss of trees in...
Martin FordMay 27, 20211 minRoots & Soils - Our Second Video In Our SeriesA New Way To Grow Healthy Trees YouTube Playlist Watch the next video in our series "Roots and Soil". Follow this video series on our...
Martin FordMay 18, 20211 minA New Way To Grow Healthy Trees Video SeriesWatch our video series on Pocket Woodlands® YouTube Channel "A New Way To Grow Healthy Trees". We will be adding a new video to this...
Martin FordMay 3, 20212 minPocket Woodland design gives our landscapes 3 dimensional interestThe essential element of the Pocket Woodlands design is a raised soil bed to enable rapid root establishment - vital for healthy and long...
Martin FordApr 27, 20212 minReasons to Have a Group of Trees as Part of our Small City GardensA 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...