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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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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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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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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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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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…
DetailsColorado 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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“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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Much of the United States suffered through a long, hot summer, with landscapes suffering from the heat and drought conditions. As homeowners anxiously await the arrival of autumn, so do the lawns, trees, and shrubs that have endured the harsh stress of Mother Nature over the last few months. With some trees, and even lawns,…
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Boxwoods are an extremely popular shrub for homeowners. They’re easy to maintain, resistant to deer, and grow well in a variety of conditions. However, they now have one weakness: bloxwood blight. In the late 1990’s, this previously unseen disease began to hit boxwoods in Europe. It made the jump to North America in 2011 and…
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