Trees – Page 3 – The Ventilator

Incorporating The Ranger's Blog

The prickly question of oak leaves!

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener The Wildlife Gardener enjoyed reading the Ranger’s holly post, and now has a new

There’s nothing like the possible debunking of ‘a well-known fact’ to get The Ranger’s nose twitching. Recently I went for

A great influence on the life of a young ranger is the figure of the Senior Ranger. In my own

Walking through the woods recently The Ranger came across this: Part of a fallen space-station, maybe? Unlikely. The remains of

Quite a few years ago, about this time of year, The Ranger got an icily polite letter from a very

On a recent visit to a farm, The Ranger was enjoying the spectacle of over 200 hectares of new trees

Even on the Isle of Wight with its temperate climate, this year it has not been possible to bring a

The received wisdom is that new trees, when planted, must be staked and, ideally, offered tree guards. This practice is

The evenings are drawing in and we won’t for much longer be able to see displays like the following, captured

The Ranger’s fond of reading Ben Goldacre’s Guardian column ‘Bad Science‘. It features regular and entertaining debunking of scientific inaccuracy,