Recently we supplied a beautiful Acer japonicum ‘Vitifolium’ to Port Phillip Specialist School. We were delighted to receive this email from Yvonne Miller, of the school council: ‘To the whole team, Your wonderful Vitifolium is now housed and happy in our Special Needs Early Education Program playground. Thank you so much to Heather for the [...]

Trees may get their beautiful shapes from battling the elements. A mathematical model shows that the pattern some branches make, first noted by Leonardo da Vinci, is the best at withstanding gusts of wind. Da Vinci observed that at any height above the ground, the total cross section of some trees’ branches has roughly the [...]