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Description: A practical guide to designing urban tree pits using structural soils, including recommended soil volumes for trees of different sizes.
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It’s common to see urban trees in poor health, and trees planted in hard landscaping often die young. There may be a variety of reasons for this but in most cases it’s because they don’t have access to enough rootable soil or they don’t receive enough water. If urban trees fail to reach maturity they only provide a small fraction of the benefits that they could potentially be bringing to towns and cities.
The Stockholm system offers a practical and effective solution for planting trees in hard landscaped areas. We supply the equipment and know-how to landscape architects, engineers, and construction companies throughout the UK.
A structural soil is a stone-based growing medium that can support pedestrian and vehicular traffic, and so their use allows tree pits to be extended beneath hard surfacing. This enables designers to provide enough soil for a tree to be healthy and reach maturity. When designing tree pits with structural soils rainwater that has been collected from roofs, roads and paved surfaces is diverted into the tree pit. This is good for the trees and tree pits constructed using this approach also contribute to sustai
Arboricultural Consultants UK | Bosky Trees, Arboriculturalists UK