Tree Planting In Urban Areas Unless the soil where the tree is being planted can support heavy root growth, your tree will have a rough time growing in a prosperous way. Root growth is a vital factor toward successful planting in an urban area. There is usually a set formula we use when planting trees…
Raising & Structural Pruning One of the greatest ways to manage the pruning of trees in urban and suburban landscapes is to subtly raise the crown overtime. This strategy make is very gentle to the tree and passerby’sbys will hardly notice because the work will be so subtle. Lower branches are kept shorter in diameter…
Pruning Shade Trees In Your Landscape Good tree pruning promotes a healthy tree structure that will help trees become resistant against failure, provide better clearance and improve overall aesthetics. From the pruning early on of young trees to mature, well developed species, no two projects are alike. Different, selective cuts should be made for each.…
Power Outages Caused by Tree Limbs Planting smaller trees in the future underneath power-lines can be a great idea in comparison to the addition of larger trees. There are thousands of outages each year that are often the effect of rubbing tree limbs. This only gets fixed when the utility company provides pruning services or…
Structural Tree Defects Many trees can develop all sorts of structural defects which make them weak to prey such as disease or insects/pests. Our treatments of these structural defects have always included choices of doing nothing, to spraying, injections, pruning, removal, or cabling & bracing systems. Some of the structural defects we look out for…
Sidewalk Tree Planting Urban planners know that the best trees which should be situated along sidewalks are smaller species because their roots will not grow to large lengths. We have encountered many issues in the past where larger, more mature tree species have grown and so have their roots. Once this happens, the roots will…
Storm Damage Tree Removal After a major storm, trees seem to suffer the worst out of any other object in your landscape. Many home or property owners ask us, “Can you save my tree(s)?” One of the first steps we take is approaching trees with extreme caution. Sometimes, trees that have fell have also brought…
Dealing With Winter Tree Burn This happens with evergreen trees and shrubs. During the winter, when these plants gather solar energy during photosynthesis, they release water during the process. It basically results in the drying of the leaves and needles, when the tree or shrub can’t replace this water due to the frozen temperature, leaves…
The various methods of pruning trees The main reasons we get asked as to why we prune trees is simply for proper aesthetics, safety reasons and health. However there are a few different methods we use for tree pruning. Crown Thinning: This involves pruning away branches that cross against other branches or run against them.…
Cabling & Bracing Support Systems Give your trees the true support they need especially against severe, inclement weather. In addition to the great harm or property damage tree branches can provide, they can also do great damage to the tree itself. Now we do our best to prevent this and minimize liability by selective pruning…