Arboreal and Horticultural Maintenance

Standard BNQ 0605-200
Arboreal and Horticultural Maintenance

BNQ standards on ornamental horticulture (BNQ 0605-) constitute a major reference for ornamental industry growers and service providers concerned with offering their customers guarantees of quality and reliability.

These standards contribute to ensuring that the production, use and maintenance of plants and landscaping work with inert materials are carried out with environmental preservation in mind and consideration of currently existing techniques.

The standard BNQ 0605-200 concerns arboreal and horticultural maintenance in particular. In addition to specifying requirements ensuring a minimum level of quality in plant maintenance (shrubs, young trees, turf, plants in containers, plant sculptures and green walls), the standard establishes key components to be considered during pruning, trimming and felling work, the removal of stumps and tree bracing. The standard is divided into 10 sections:

• Definitions;
• Pruning shrubs and young trees;
• Maintaining shrubs and young trees;
• Trimming trees;
• Felling trees and stump removal;
• Bracing trees and treating wounds and holes;
• Maintaining turf areas;
• Maintaining plants in hanging containers or wall planters;
• Maintaining plant sculptures (mosaiculture);
• Maintaining green walls.

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12547	FRN	BNQ 0605-200	Entretien arboricole et horticole
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Financial contributors

The development of this standard was made possible thanks to the financial support of the following organizations:

Standards Committee Members

Number of committee members: 15

Ms. Josée Bouchard	Les paysages durables
Mr. Christian Buteau	Hydro-Québec - Distribution
Mr. Gilles Couillard Després	École professionnelle de Saint-Hyacinthe (EPSH)
Mr. Steeve Cousineau-Gauvin	Association des paysagistes professionnels du Québec (APPQ)
Mr. Christian Desmarais	Paysage Sud-Ouest
Mr. Guillaume Grégoire	Fédération interdisciplinaire de l'horticulture ornementale du Québec (FIHOQ)
Ms. Meagan Hanna	Société internationale d'arboriculture Québec (SIAQ)
Mr. Guy Laliberté	Institut de technologie agroalimentaire (ITA) Campus de Saint-Hyacinthe
Ms. Mélanie Langlais	Association des services en horticulture ornementale du Québec (ASHOQ)
Mr. Jean-François Lavoie	Ville de Québec
Ms. Isabelle Légaré	Arbo-Design
Ms. Jeanne Millet	Experte indépendante
Ms. Karine Morel	Ministère des Transports
Ms. Sara-Maud Rousseau Chagnon	Jardin Dion
Ms. Manon Tougas	Ville de Mascouche

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