Tree care is often lumped in with general gardening. Cosmetic? Seasonal? Few of us can define it precisely. But it turns out that professional arboriculture is a field of its own: where specialists bring together a knowledge of biology, engineering, and safety science.
Challenges for trees are rife — from pollution and phased-out infrastructure to confined roots and heavy-handed pruning.
It might seem like an unavoidable situation, or not a big deal, but a twisted tree formation can turn into an unhealthy ecosystem for an entire space or a downright safety hazards. Who do you call when a tree in your garden is liable to fall on your house should a heavy storm swoop in?
Arborists, lowkey but necessary urban professionals who work beyond what the public domain is able to provide.
Seven years ago, CEO Costin Iordache made the decision to swivel his alpinism skills into a different direction: one of direct environmental reshaping.
Cluj-based team Arboristica offers a wide range of coherent care services — from crown thinning and shape pruning to advanced high‑altitude interventions. Priding themselves on their knowledge of local, European, American norms, the team are somewhere between craftsmen of nature and scientist. They are concerned with precise and safe interventions, ecological awareness, and the future of a tree and how it might respond to future stress. While the concept itself may seem “boutique”, prices are fair and offer an alternative to public services which can sometimes be difficult to access, schematic or overwhelmed. If you have a problem in your natural space and need to do something about, it’s worth checking out arboristica.ro.
Among their employees is Stas, an arborist with a background in chemical engineering who shares CEO Costin’s passion for food forestry: together, they plan to work with what they’ve got to transform previously deadened spaces in Cluj. Though the team is small, they travel all over the country for projects, and have big dreams of branching out into food forest creation and composting spaces longterm, hopefully completing local cultural and information beyond what general landscaping can provide.
Romania is a country with enormous and varied green spaces which unfortunately have suffered greatly in recent years thanks to improper care.
Doing damage control now requires both field expertise and a certain philosophy about environmental science.
Ermitaj Malin, the eco-center nestled in a Transylvanian valley
