by Quality Tree Surgery, Inc. on August 5, 2010
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 [...]
by Quality Tree Surgery, Inc. on July 12, 2010
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 [...]
by Quality Tree Surgery, Inc. on December 14, 2009
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 [...]
by Quality Tree Surgery, Inc. on December 8, 2009
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 [...]
by Quality Tree Surgery, Inc. on October 21, 2009
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 [...]
by Quality Tree Surgery, Inc. on October 21, 2009
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 [...]
by Quality Tree Surgery, Inc. on October 21, 2009
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 [...]