The Northbrook Team Gets Festive
SavATree’s Northbrook team shows off their holiday spirit in preparation for setting up Holiday Lighting displays! Interested in Holiday Lighting from SavATree? Click here to learn more.
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Safety Training in Rockville
SavATree is all about safety! Recently at the SavATree Rockville branch, six of the General Tree Care team members modeled their new chainsaw pants. These are special pants, able to prevent injury if a chainsaw comes inc ontact with the legs. In fact, these pants can be worn in place of chainsaw chaps! Each team…
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Denver Botanic Gardens and SavATree team up for a light display like no other
A recent video on CNN.com entitled, The best holiday lights go all out, highlights locations across the United States for their amazing holiday lighting displays (which are visited each and every year by thousands of holiday on-lookers). SavATree is proud that one of their valued and long-standing partners is featured on this prestigious listing. For…
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How to pick and care for your live Christmas tree
While this time of a year is a good time for scheduling dormant pruning services, there isn’t much else to do to care for the trees on your property. That is unless you’ve decided to purchase a live Christmas tree this year. In 2017, 27.4 million Christmas trees were sold in the United States (compared…
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Is living in a world without trees possible?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a world without trees? Trees are something human beings take for granted each and every day—many times without realizing it. Even so, trees continue to provide our lives with physical and environmental benefits—without fail—and never grumble about the effort. But in a world…
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SavATree Trains in Virginia
On a chilly Saturday morning at Northern Virginia Community College’s Annandale campus, three SavATree tree crews gathered for a day of training. The teams from the Rockville, Maryland branch and Springfield and Sterling, Virginia branches gathered together to gain knowledge of ornamental pruning of boxwoods and other woody shrubs. The pruning training was led by…
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Protecting flower pots during the winter months
Now well into the fall season, many homeowners and businesses are getting their landscapes ready for the winter months ahead. Much of their energy is now spent gathering and disposing of fallen leaves, trimming back perennials to the ground level and removing dead annuals all together. But many rarely consider their flower pots during this…
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Importance of Environmental Education
According to a May 2018 article in The Washington Post, the average American child spends five to eight hours a day in front of a digital screen, often at the expense of unstructured play outdoors in nature. In their book Natural Learning: The Life of an Environmental Schoolyard. Creating Environments for Rediscovering Nature’s Way of Teaching Robin C. Moore…
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Colorado experienced an abnormally hot summer and an unseasonably mild fall in 2018. But a few weeks into October, temperatures dropped quickly and soon much of the Front Range was covered by its first snowfall of the season. Residents rejoiced at the powdery precipitation, fully expecting cooler temperatures to finally settle in across much of…
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How does the Farmer’s Almanac work?
“The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and “wrong too often for us to rely on it.” –Patrick Young Whether you’re caring for your front lawn or manicuring a signature tree, living on the beautiful coast of Maine or the mountainous terrains of Colorado, the weather (in…
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