Tree and Shrub Program

Tree and Shrub Pruning

Correct pruning is an essential maintenance practice for trees and shrubs.  

Trees and shrubs should be examined annually for pruning requirements.  Too often, pruning is ignored for several years.  Then some trees and most shrubs become overgrown and often weak, making drastic pruning a necessity to bring the plant back to usefulness.

Regular pruning will help keep the plant in bounds and keep its growth vigorous.

    Reasons to Prune

Pruning is necessary to maintain a healthy, vigorous tree or shrub.  Specifically, pruning is practiced to:

1. Maintain or reduce plant size.  Pruning can prevent a plant from overgrowing its space in the landscape and eliminates the need for drastic cutting of crowded, overgrown plants.  It can allow for growth of plants under or adjacent to the pruned plant. It can also serve to reduce leaf area on newly planted trees and shrubs.  This promotes survival through through transplanting and consequent root loss.

2. Remove undesirable growth.  Pruning can encourage plant vigor through the removal of weak, overcrowded growth.  Such thinning often improves the visual balance or symmetry of the plant. 

3. Remove Dead, diseased, or broken branches.  Pruning will aid in maintaining the shape, vigor, and health of the plant.

4. Stimulate flowering and fruiting.  Removal of the current year's old, faded flowers and fruit clusters will promote flower buds fro the following season.

5. Rejuvenated and restore old plants to vigorous growth.  Proper pruning can restore a youthful, natural growth habit in certain overgrown shrubs.

6. Prevent damage to life and property.  Pruning can minimize the hazard of limbs interfering with power lines or overgrowing structures.  It can also remove weak crotches before limbs break in strong winds and open blocked sight lines caused by overhanging limbs at driveways or street corners.

7. Shape plants in an artificial form.  Pruning and shearing can be used to shape plants as hedges or for rigidly formal espaliers or topiaries.

Tree and Shrub Fertilization and Insect Control

Fertilizing your tree keeps it healthy so that it can protect it self from drought and insects.

Fertilizing also helps flowering or fruit trees to produce healthier and more beautiful flowers and fruit.

Insect control is done in many ways.  Such as hand picking larva sacks from trees and shrubs before the hatch and spraying trees and shrubs with pesticides to kill larva after hatching.  Also by feeding and pruning trees correctly to help promote growth in the trees and shrubs.

5 Visit Tree/Shrub Care Program Special

$129.00 with Lawn fertilization program / $169.00 with out

Price based on up to 5000 sq. ft. 

Call for pricing on larger area

Tree/Shrub care program special includes

1. Deep root fertilization (March/April/May)

2. Inspection and insect/disease control (May/June)

3. Inspection and insect/disease control (June/July)

4. Inspection and insect/disease control (July/August)

5. Deep root fertilization (Sept./Oct./Nov.)

Free service calls (throughout the season) Included in this program upon request.

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