29th April, 2026
By Ed Anderson I have been coming over to South Africa 2 or 3 times a year for the last 6 years. South Africa has an incredible biodiversity and is ranked among the top 3 most biodiverse countries in the world, often placed 3rd behind Brazil and Indonesia. But...
15th December, 2025
By Joe Robson – Dec 2025. At Barton Hyett Associates we’ve recently stepped up our tree planting efforts. We focus on large feature trees and we’ve planted a lot of cloud hedging and topiary using common yew. We’ve planted so many, that yew trees seem to have...
22nd September, 2025
We are looking for an additional arboricultural consultant to join our friendly and passionate team. We are a focussed arboricultural consultancy based in Worcestershire, covering much of the midlands and southern UK. In everything we do we strive to have a...
31st January, 2025
We are delighted to welcome Ed Anderson to our team at Barton Hyett Associates as a new Arboriculturist. Ed joins us having enjoyed a career spanning multiple continents in a variety of roles from Arborist to Tree Surveyor along with extensive practical and logistical...
16th December, 2024
By Joe Robson Did you know that in the UK you can complete a day long course called Compulsory Bike Training (CBT)? This requires you to ride a moped with an automatic gearbox and completing this course entitles you to ride 125cc motorcycle with a manual gearbox. Aged...
12th December, 2024
A huge congratulations to Ian Monger, Senior Arboriculturist and valued and long standing member of the Barton Hyett Associates team who has just been awarded chartered arboriculturist status (Professional Membership of the Institute of Chartered Foresters) after a...
31st May, 2024
We are looking for an additional arboricultural consultant to join our friendly and passionate team. We are a focussed arboricultural consultancy based in Worcestershire, covering much of the midlands and southern UK. In everything we do we strive to have a...
23rd February, 2024
Recently we had the opportunity to assist some ecologist friends carry out tree inspections to look for potential bat roosts. This is something we have done before, as most of us are trained and competent tree climbers (if a little slower than we used to be!). This...
7th November, 2023
O ruined piece of nature! (King Lear, Act 4, Scene 6) Whether it’s an ancient woodland felled for a poorly thought-through infrastructure project or street trees condemned because an aggressive contract says so, the beast of human industry was winning out long before...
20th September, 2023
Calculating the benefits of trees across the West Midlands My start at Barton Hyett Associates Ltd coincided with the beginning of an i-Tree Eco surveying project undertaken in collaboration with Treeconomics and volunteers from Birmingham Tree People. This work is...
