There is nothing like the smell of a real evergreen tree in your home for the holidays. But if you don’t like the idea of cutting down a live tree year after year, you may want to try a potted living tree as your holiday tree of choice. After the holiday is over you can…
Why prune trees in winter? Tree pruning not only improves the appearance of trees and reduces risk but also helps make trees healthier. Trimming trees can promote health by removing dead or dying branches that have previously been injured by disease, insects, mites, animals, storms or people. Winter is an excellent time to have your…
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and many of us are beginning to think about how we want to decorate our tables for this festive occasion. In some traditional American homes, you will see a cornucopia, or “horn of plenty,” as part of the celebration. Symbolizing abundance of both food and wealth, the cornucopia has a history…
Got Deer? SavATree’s Winter Protection Treatment is applied once in the fall or early winter to protect evergreens and other plants that retain their foliage from deer damage. Hungry deer can cause irreparable damage to your landscape. With winter feeding, plants are often disfigured, stressed and in some cases damaged beyond repair. Our options can…
Stressed and dehydrated trees and shrubs are at greater risk of decline during the harsh, cold winter. ArborGuard, our clear polymer antidesiccant, creates a thin barrier over the surface of the leaves, locking in moisture. In addition to reducing water loss, it prevents sunscald and windburn to minimize browning of foliage. Patrick Parker, Director of…
By Patrick Parker, RCA #514, PHC Program Director, SavATree, Bedford Hills, NY INTRODUCTION As I write this the northeast U.S. is experiencing one of the worst droughts it has seen in over a decade. The U.S. Drought Monitor (http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/) has classified parts of New England in its second worst category of Severe Drought and all…
Recover • Protect • Defend After a difficult growing season, fall provides your landscape the opportunity to recover and defend against the harsh winter ahead. Your SavATree arborist will design a program to protect against storm damage, address structural issues and provide critical nutrients. How can we help: • Recover – Our exclusive sea kelp…
In the gardening world, many think that fall is the end of the growing season. In fact, it is quite the contrary! Fall is an ideal season for planting trees, shrubs and other assorted plants. The key is encouraging good root growth. Planting trees and shrubs in fall enables the root systems to grow before…
Republished with permission from Frank S. Rossi, Associate Professor and Extension Turfgrass Specialist, Cornell University Turfgrass Program http://turf.cals.cornell.edu If there is adequate soil moisture in the soil surface to allow turf green-up (maybe growth) than renovation programs, fertilization, weed control, seeding and sodding can occur and expect at least moderate to good success from these…
SavATree arborists visit the Club to meet with school age children to talk about the subjects related to trees. Recently, elementary school children learned about the benefits of trees and how to properly care for them. Older students took a tree tour on the Clubs grounds and were introduced to the role of an arborist…
