{"id":1763,"date":"2022-10-21T11:21:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T15:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arboxygene.com\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:15:08","slug":"what-is-an-arborist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arboxygene.com\/en\/news\/what-is-an-arborist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an arborist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<h1>What is an arborist?<\/h1>\n<p>Growing and maintaining a tree, whether it is a fruit tree or a landscape ornamental, requires special knowledge, specific equipment and great precision. All this is part of the prerogatives of an arborist.<\/p>\n<h2>What is an arborist?<\/h2>\n<p>An arborist is responsible for the planting and maintenance of fruit trees and landscape ornamental shrubs. He is a professional who has undergone specific training during which he has acquired all the knowledge and developed the skills necessary to exercise this profession. Thus, he is able to identify the methods to be applied during all stages of plant growth to achieve the desired result.<\/p>\n<h2>What are the missions of an arborist?<\/h2>\n<p>From a global point of view, an arborist takes care of trees. Specifically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He prepares the soil on which the trees will be planted so that it can provide them with all the nutrients they need for proper growth. This can be done by adding fertilizers, but care must be taken to ensure that the fertilizer is not harmful to the plot and its surroundings.<\/li>\n<li>He plants the trees. In general, an arborist deals with small-scale crops.<\/li>\n<li>He takes care of the maintenance of the trees. Thus, he performs pruning, trimming or bracing at the appropriate time. He provides treatments and care for trees to protect them from pests or diseases. He also applies the appropriate solutions if the plants are invaded by insects.<\/li>\n<li>In the case of fruit trees, it controls the development of the fruit and participates in the harvest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What are the qualities of a good arborist?<\/h2>\n<p>A good arborist must have the following qualities to carry out his missions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He must be in good physical condition and have great endurance.<\/li>\n<li>He must be versatile, and therefore know how to adapt to different crops as well as to climatic and weather conditions.<\/li>\n<li>He must be particularly observant and meticulous in order to quickly spot the slightest disease or anomaly in each tree (branches, leaves, trunk or fruit).<\/li>\n<li>He must master the use of different products such as fertilizers or pesticides as well as agricultural machinery and equipment.<\/li>\n<li>He must be both autonomous and able to work in a team.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, he must obviously know the trees he looks after well in order to be able to maintain them correctly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is the difference between an arborist and an arborist?<\/h2>\n<p>Like the arborist, the arborist is responsible for the maintenance of trees and shrubs, i.e. pruning, bracing, trimming, treatment or protection. However, it does not take care of the planting.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>At Arboxyg\u00e8ne, we put at your service professional urban arborists-trimmers who will offer you efficient and environmentally friendly solutions for the maintenance of your trees if you are in Granby and its surroundings as well as on the South Shore of Montreal. Please feel free to visit our website or contact us for more information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pruning-tree-Bromont-ARBOXYGENE-scaled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arboxygene.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arboxygene.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arboxygene.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arboxygene.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arboxygene.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arboxygene.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/arboxygene.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arboxygene.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arboxygene.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arboxygene.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arboxygene.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}