Understanding Trees
Trees are unique and essential to a healthy ecosystem, to urban development and to climate mitigation/adaption. They are phytobiomes – essential ecosystem generators.
Gone are the days when we think of trees only as ornaments.
Trees have their own profession – arboriculture – and that knowledge is available in the Middle East regions via Mark Laurence, a UK based arborist and ecological landscape consultant.
Some services offered
A wide range of tree and landscape services are offered, from site surveys, tree care programs, ecological planting methods, podium and internal planting, etc.
Site Surveys
Surveys of trees on development sites are essential for the understanding and protection of trees. Surveys are best combined with tree care and protection plans and pruning/retention and root zone protection zoning.
Tree Care Plans
Management of trees is a long term affair that begins with a desire or need for change and an appreciation or the role and value of trees. Implementing correct care over time, including the training of maintenance staff, is important.
Planting/transplanting Plans
Lifting trees for reuse on a development site is challenging in an arid environment, but can be done. Unfortunately, this is often carried out incorrectly and results in a high mortality rate and/or disfigured trees.
Latest news from the blog
Occasional posts on a range of tree related topics for the Middle East/Gulf region. Work I have done, things I’ve seen or written or what I find inspiring!
Contact Mark Laurence on
+447949 099195 – call or WhatsApp message
Email on: mailatmarklaurencedotcom
Mark also has a website focussed on Landscape Design and Green Infrastructure (plus UK trees) at: