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“We appreciate the time and attention that your Arbor Patrol team takes to maintain the overall health and appearance of the trees, bushes and general grounds. As they say, you can only have one first impression and the impression the grounds make on both residents and visitors alike is always positive thanks to your caring maintenance. Just as the trees continue to grow and blossom under your care, we hope our relationship with SavATree does the same.”
William Toedter
Southampton, NY
“After four different unsatisfactory visits with so-called arborists, I found SavaTree... I was most impressed with the professionalism of David [my arborists] and his colleagues. They were most knowledgeable, fair with their assessment about what needed to be done, yet very attuned with what my concerns. I highly recommend them without any hesitation. In a field where there is an abundance of folks looking to take advantage of consumers, SavaTree, David and crew strike me as incredibly honest and proud arborists who do a fantastic job.”
Debbie Durkin
Silver Spring, MD
“I am a new and highly satisfied customer of SavATree. For 50 years I have lived in the same house in the Greenhaven area, and in that time I have never had a tree company that gave me such fine service.”
Joan Kleinbard
Rye, NY
“It is always a pleasure working with SavATree as your company provides the best plant, tree and lawn health care that we have experienced at the Ives. Always professional, courteous and responsive to our needs, SavATree’s services have provided our employees and patrons with pleasant outdoor experiences in an insect free environment for several years.”
Kathleen G. Gallagher
Executive Director
The Charles Ives Center for the Arts
Danbury, CT
“For over 14 years, I have entrusted the care of my trees, plants and orchard to SavATree. Their highly qualified arborists have exacting standards and understand how to maintain the health and form of the various species of trees on my property. I admire the artistic skill that goes into the pruning and love the colorful blossoms, fruits and foliage that flourish as a result of their impeccable care.”
Martha Stewart
Katonah, NY
"Efficient, high quality, professional competence — all at a competitive sum. At first [Alison] Pottage won me over by her solid knowledge as an arborist, then the crew did their job to her specifications on our 60 to 70 foot oaks within a remarkable period of time -- and left the grounds quite clean.”
Bob Busser
Philadelphia, PA
Click here to read all testimonials“You take on a job, call it a problem, gigantic or small, and you go to it. True Professionals. I am at peace for having found SavATree. Sometimes bills are paid grudgingly. I pay with respect to a company whose pride lives up to its logo. It’s love of what you do and I thank you.”
Sam Fink
Great Neck, NY
Trim, Taper And Train Your Topiary
Since the days of the ancient Romans, the art of topiary gardening has been cultivated for both its aesthetic and practical benefits. Although Europeans have used this method of growing and training plants for centuries, topiaries became popular in the United States as a means of architecturally transforming the limited spaces of urban homes and gardens.
The most common topiary forms include espalier, hedge, sculptural and standard. The espalier, one of the most familiar artistic forms, is a plant, which is grown flat, like a vine, against a wall, fence building or trellis. Fruit trees make excellent espaliers, as they are both productive and pretty in leaf and flower. Espaliers can be cultivated and pruned to different designs such as fan shapes, candelabras, fountains, diamonds and triangles, it takes several years of growing and shaping to "finish" a complicated pattern. From an architectural point of view, espaliers are particularly useful in concealing a utility area or creating a privacy screen without closing off the garden from light and air.
Hedges, the quintessential topiary form, are rows of shrubs or trees that are evenly spaced into a solid line and pruned so that they are wider at their base than at their top. Traditionally, hedges provide a formal look. However, for a natural looking landscape, they can easily be pruned into forms that recreate inspiring or desirable shapes seen in the wild.
The most imaginative and arresting topiary form is sculptural. This form can be English ivy that has been trained to grow over wire shapes into giraffes, camels and hippos. Other sculptural topiary may consist of tight-growing plants which take on a basic form such as a cone or pyramid or a more complicated form such as four trees that form the legs and body of an elephant. Like a hedge, sculptured, freestanding topiaries should taper towards the top, so that light reaches all portions of the figure and snow and ice will not break its branches.
Its lollipop shape best characterizes the standard topiary. Typically, non hardy plants such as citrus, herbs, latana, fuchsia and geranium are an excellent choice for the standard topiary. The fragrant foliage of these plants enhance the indoors during winter and are a welcome sight when moved outdoors in the warmer weather.
If you decide to take on a topiary project of your own, it is best to start out with small, tight-growing plants and be sure to plant them in a place where they are surrounded by full light. In order to achieve the look you desire, shear them often when they are growing; this will ensure a closely grown, tight-knit effect.
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