Tree Care – Keeping Your Trees Healthy and Strong
Tree Care is the process of ensuring that trees and shrubs are growing well. This includes all actions and activities that improve a plant’s health and vitality, including proper planting, mulching, fertilizing, pruning, and inspection. Good health is a plant’s first, and strongest, line of defense against issues such as disease, insects, drought, storm damage, and nutritional deficiencies. Performing routine inspections of your landscaped trees is the best way to ensure that they are receiving the care they need to stay healthy and strong. These inspections can help identify potential problems early in their development so they can be addressed before they become more severe. Monitoring your landscaped trees can also help you identify invasive plants, pests and diseases. Some of these, such as the emerald ash borer and spotted lanternfly, require immediate action to prevent their spread. Others, like girdling roots or stem girdling wounds, can cause slow decline and death of the aff...