From Kate Phillipson, Prestbury, Gloucestershire, UK
Whenever I see newly planted trees staked, I become annoyed. Now I feel even more justified in having this emotion, thanks to James Wong’s piece, which explained how bad the practice is. How do we persuade organisations to stop misguidedly tying young trees to posts? Perhaps we could highlight that it is much cheaper and quicker to not do so and the time saved could be used to plant more freestanding trees (20 January, p 44).
