Mark Cashmore is an Arborist at Treetec. After completing his horticulture studies at Burnley, he built a local tree services business and then Treetec, an arboricultural and ecological consulting firm. Mark now divides his time between arboriculture, habitat research and restoration, and a software startup developing tools for ecological research and tree management.

This session will look at the selection, establishment and care of canopy trees, including:-

• Selecting great trees and locations
• Planting considerations particularly at that junction of structures and large trees
• Parenting of trees in their unruly, formative years
• Long term care, avoiding some key mistakes from soil condition to wounding
• Pruning and tree lopping
• Habitat - hacking large hollows into perfectly healthy, living trees!