Tree Care
How to Care for a Real Christmas Tree
The Christmas tree industry plants millions of trees every year, helping to combat climate change and produce fresh oxygen. Learn how to care for a real Christmas tree, so you can celebrate the holidays all while reducing your carbon footprint!
Read MoreThe 5 Best Apple Trees to Grow in Zone 5
Are you envious of the incredible apple harvests people get this time of year? Now is the perfect time to plant your own apple trees, so you can enjoy future harvests.
Read More10 Best Trees to Plant this Arbor and Earth Day
Celebrate the Earth by planting a tree. Check out the best choices for our region!
Read MoreTop 10 Trees for Fall Color
Sure, we all love the pumpkin-flavored confections, trendy fashions, and crisp autumn air, but there’s just something about colorful fall trees that take your breath away. If you’d like to brighten your landscape with a splash of rich fall color, look no further than these ten spectacular specimens!
Read MoreThe Benefit of Trees for Your Home’s Value
01The Value of Trees in Home Landscaping02Best Trees for Front Yard Privacy03Best Trees for Backyard Shade Trees of all sizes and colors are welcome additions to any neighborhood. Their natural beauty is unquestionable, and their profound impact on the environment makes them a good investment for our future, by filtering out toxins and churning out…
Read MoreProtect Your Spruce and Pines from Harmful Pests
Strong and sturdy spruce trees and pines grow into towering staples of our home’s landscape. Non-surprisingly so, most homeowners wouldn’t think twice that anything could harm these robust beauties, who provide us year long color, privacy, and shade. But nature has teeny tricks up it’s sleeve in the form of pests capable of bringing down…
Read MoreHealthy Trees
We all love trees for their magnificent beauty and with so many incredible varieties – everyone seems to have their favorite. Besides their stunning appeal to your garden, trees provide us with so many benefits to our health, our home, and our community. Here’s What Healthy Trees Mean to You Healthy People Tree filled neighborhoods…
Read MoreWhen to Prune Trees & Shrubs
Why To Prune Before pruning of landscape plants happen think about why it is being pruned, what is the goal? Pruning should be done to remove any dead, broken, injured, diseased, or insect infested branches. Pruning should also be done to prune out undesirable branches such as crossovers, suckers, sprouts, or those branches that are…
Read MoreMarch
March is a good time to prune trees and shrubs while they are dormant. Without leaves; it is easy to see the framework of the plant. Complete pruning before buds break. Wounds from pruning heal faster during this time. Shrubs that bloom in the spring like lilacs, spirea and forsythias should not be pruned. Pruning…
Read MoreJanuary
Prevent dehydration of the following plants with an application of Wilt-Stop / Wilt-Proof. This application should be done when temperature is just above freezing. Boxwood Holly Yews Arborvitae Hydrangea Japanese Maples It’s important to ensure perennials, roses, and hydrangeas have a good layer of mulch over their root systems to prevent freeze burn. How to…
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