Tree Surgeon and Grounds Care for Fraserburgh

The Broch, and the Farms Behind It

Fraserburgh — the Broch, to most people who live here — sits on the very northeast corner of Aberdeenshire, with Kinnaird Head and the old lighthouse marking where the town meets the sea. Like Peterhead, it's an exposed spot: granite terraced housing close to the harbour takes the brunt of onshore weather, while the newer estates around Smithfield and Inverallochy sit a little further back from it. Garden trees here tend to be smaller and more wind-pruned than you'd see twenty miles inland, and hedges do a lot of the screening work that a mature tree canopy would do somewhere more sheltered.

Move a few miles inland and it's mostly arable farmland — the flat, exposed fields typical of this part of Buchan — where shelterbelt hedges and stock fencing are what most jobs are about rather than individual garden trees. Hedge-laying and gapping-up an old shelterbelt is a regular winter job for us out this way.