Plant Healthcare

The Fall Gardening Guide

Fall Gardening Tips to Remember Fall is often known as the harvest season. People gather the produce from their gardens to be eaten or preserved before the next planting season begins. While autumn ushers in the colder and harsher part of the year, it’s still possible to have a well-maintained fall garden. Planting during the fall will require more attention from you as a gardener. Your plants will also take more time to mature. Their growth may be slower than usual due to insufficient sunlight and frigid soil temperature. […]

arborist ensuring vertical growth in tree by pruning

How To Ensure Vertical Growth in Your Trees

Trees are there for more than just aesthetic appeal in your yard. They can also provide shade and clean air for everyone. However, like any part of your home, trees need maintenance, which then helps them maintain vertical growth. Vertical growth in trees is beneficial to people, animals, and the environment. Tall trees tend to release more oxygen into the air and provide shelter for wildlife. Additionally, they filter noise and add privacy to your property. Keep in mind that proper tree care is essential to ensure vertical growth. Here […]

4 Signs of an Unhealthy Tree

4 Signs of an Unhealthy Tree Trees can be valuable assets to your property because they provide benefits like improved air quality and reduced stormwater runoff. However, an unhealthy tree can also be a liability. It may potentially cause harm to your home, your neighbors’ properties, and the individuals living near your tree once it falls over. If you have trees nearby, you might consider checking on them regularly to prevent possible property damage and injury. To help you examine them, here are telling signs that your tree is unhealthy: […]

6 Reasons Why Tree Diversity Is Important

Trees provide many benefits like absorbing noise, giving us privacy, and freshening up the atmosphere. But we must be careful in choosing which species to place in one area. After all, having diverse trees can be more advantageous in the long run. To help you understand, here are reasons why tree diversity is essential: 1. It Can Support the Ecosystem Having many species of trees in your area can promote physical and mental well-being in your community. That’s because spending time around trees can improve one’s mood, reduce stress, […]

Keep Your Landscape Deer Free

Keep Your Landscape Deer Free, Deer damage to ornamental plants is a recurring problem in many areas. Deer populations in many neighborhoods have grown due to suburban sprawl, with expanses of pavement and expensive, cultivated landscapes. In areas with heavy snowfall in the nearby woods, front and backyard plantings can serve as easy winter forage. Deer are selective feeders that eat leaves from flowers, shrubs, and ornamental trees. Damage to larger trees can extend up to 7 feet off the ground. In some areas, deer damage peaks in winter when snow […]

Getting to the Root of the Problem

One of the major causes of tree failure is root damage. When a tree’s root system has been extensively damaged, the whole tree can fall to the ground – or onto your house. So let’s get to The Root of The Problem. “Most homeowners will look at a tree’s branches (canopy), and if there is no visible problem, they will determine that the tree is healthy. Many problems in trees do show themselves in the canopy – leaf discoloration, premature leaf shedding, or even branch death. Trees may fall over […]

Essential Spring Gardening Tips

Essential Spring Gardening Tips Now is the ideal time to begin reviving your garden, since spring is just around the corner. You can start implementing disease and insect control programs to protect your garden and try structural pruning to improve the appearance of your trees. Keep reading for some more Essential Spring Gardening Tips to help get your garden back to looking great in time for summer. Start with an Inspection Before gardening for spring, you should first look into your garden and assess your trees, and check for any […]

Pros and Cons of Using Insecticide Formulas on Your Plants

Using Insecticides: The Pros and Cons The last thing anyone wants for their garden is to be infested with different kinds of insects or pests. The damage caused by these creatures can be catastrophic and overwhelming. That is why many homeowners and gardeners use insecticides. The effectiveness of different insecticide formulas can’t be underestimated. However, some pesticides can positively or negatively affect your plants, health, and surroundings. Here is a list of Using Insecticides: Pros and Cons of Using Insecticide Formulas on Your Plants The use of insecticides isn’t for […]

Don’t Use Climbing Spikes When Pruning Trees

Don’t Use Climbing Spikes When Pruning Trees Is your tree care provider using spikes to climb while pruning your trees? Climbing spikes are sharpened steel spikes attached to the climber’s leg by leather straps and padded supports. A tree worker should only use them to access trees being removed. When these spikes are used on living trees, it is traumatizing to the tree and creates unnecessary damage. So remember, Don’t Use Climbing Spikes When Pruning Trees. Each puncture from a climbing spike produces a certain amount of tree tissue death, though this […]

My Neighbors Tree is overhanging on my property line

Before You Cut Your Neighbor’s Tree. My Neighbors Tree is overhanging on my property line, It is a common occurrence: You look out your window and all you see is your neighbor’s tree dropping branches and nuts and bark all over your yard. Or, you can’t see anything at all because of that tree. Or, you are certain that large branches of that tree will eventually fall onto your garage. Before you take the chain saw into your own hands and cut off the offending limbs, you will want to know […]

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