Robust tree planting can effectively contribute to a calmer environment.
How Trees Help, Aerodynamically Speaking
Five steps explaining how trees can benefit the microclimate by slowing the wind.
Why Trees Are Viewed Cautiously
Where trees are immature, poorly established and struggling to survive against the elements, they provide next to no wind mitigation benefit.
Why Trees Are Still So Valuable
Where trees are robust, mature enough, and well established, they can contribute considerably to wind mitigation.
Artificial Alternatives and Finding the Balance
Engineered alternatives to trees as wind mitigation are readily achievable, but divide opinion.
Where the Balance Breaks Down
Good Planting, Bad Planting
Species is important, and where deciduous trees are planted with the knowledge that they form part of a wind mitigation scheme, a robust and substantial crown solidity is critical during winter.
