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Imagine if you will, a group of racehorses pacing in a field. They look eager for the run; it has been a long off-season. You can see the restlessness in their eyes, the anxiousness in their body movements. You can almost see them speaking with one another, conversing about the challenges to come and the [...]
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Most people are aware that trees and other living plants are valuable. They provide beauty to our properties, manufacture oxygen, reduce rain-fall runoff, provide sound barriers, and help us save energy by provid-ing cool shade in the summer and reducing the harsh winds in the winter. However, trees and other landscape plants are a part [...]
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Even our most faithful turf management customers have problems with their lawns dur-ing this time of year. You may recognize some of the follow-ing most asked questions dur-ing July and August: What are all those little brown dead looking circles all over my lawn? There is a fungus among us—Brown Patch—and it‟s the reason for [...]
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Have you heard about the West Nile Virus? Read up! It‟s interesting . . . . Who’s Most at Risk People over age 50 Anyone with a weakened immune system Symptoms Incubation period (time from infection to onset of symptoms) is usually 3 to 15 days. Fever Headache and body aches [...]
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In most cases tree failure is directly linked to some kind of decay, either in the root system or above ground in the frame of the tree. Losing a tree to these problems is more acceptable but to lose a perfectly healthy tree due to a structural weakness is saddening. Not only do you lose [...]
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Want A Fast Tree? In the fall of 2004 I was called to the site of a customer in Franklin whose home had tragically burned. The fire had been so hot that many of the surrounding trees were severely damaged by heat. One of which was a large Pawlonia tree, an introduced Asian tree species [...]
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Smothered and covered, like a really good hamburger that clogs up your arteries. Leaves that cover your turf are much the same way. They clog off sunlight, oxygen, and down right smother the grass. Nobody has time to rake leaves on a daily basis nor is that needed. Simply once a week, or at least [...]
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Trees are much like a Company, each leaf is an employee of the company and each one makes money by means of photosynthesis, in short its making starches and sugars and sending them down to the company. The company in turn directs this energy we’ll call Money to where it’s needed most. There is also [...]
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Most people are aware that trees and other living plants are valuable. They provide beauty to our properties, manufacture oxygen, reduce rainfall runoff, provide sound barriers, and help us save energy by providing cool shade in the summer and reducing the harsh winds in the winter. However, trees and other landscape plants are a part [...]
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It has long been believed that tree paint or tree wound dressing applied to the open wound of a tree will help keep insects out and prevent decay by fungi. This method of treatment for helping trees is far from correct. Studies have found that tree wound dressings are of no benefit to the tree [...]
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