Northern Tree Care

Northern Tree Care is owned and operated by Peter Gray Dip. Hort (Arb), a qualified horticulturist and arborist who has worked in New South Wales Northern Rivers region, primarily in the Byron Shire, since the mid-1990s.

Peter Gray – Arborist

Peter has shared his extensive knowledge and experience with many local students of arboriculture for the past 10 years through a part time teaching position at Wollongbar TAFE. His lifelong interest in trees, with their various horticultural and arboricultural needs, began at age eight when he took responsibility for cultivating and pruning a small section of Peach trees on his family’s stone fruit orchard.

An understanding of trees and their requirements permeates Peter’s business practice, and in an increasingly complex world, this knowledge is constantly counterpoised against a range of trees’ apparently competing interests the most common being the safety and/or endeavours of human beings.

Conflicts Regarding Trees

Often, where tree matters arise, various parties hold vested interests and may have competing or conflicting wants and needs. When it comes to professional reporting, Peter Gray’s approach is to listen to the client’s brief without preconceptions and to advise without prejudice. Situations involving trees can be complex and multi-faceted in terms of how they may best be addressed, short-term, long-term, or both.

Peter’s motto remains: “The needs of people (notably their safety) come first, but running a very close second, come the needs of the trees.”