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Sad Trees & Landscape? Why you need to do this today...

Updated: Dec 4, 2022

Do your trees and/or landscape look sad, ugly, neglected, or even hazardous? Not sure what to do? An arborist consultation can help! - Schedule a consultation today! cyclingarborist.com




Comprehensive Consultation Services


In the mission of optimizing the health and aesthetics of your trees and landscape, I am happy to provide comprehensive at-home consultations. If you are looking for advice about any tree or landscape matter and need some direction from a certified arborist who is also an experienced landscaper about how to move forward, I am your guy. Whether it's a new home and you want to understand what you have and develop a maintenance plan or you are looking to renew or get on top of a neglected yard or you just have a simple tree question or concern, I am here for you.

These consultations include but are not limited to, tree health and tree risk assessments, pruning recommendations and ground-level pruning demonstrations, landscape design advice, landscape ideas, plant/tree recommendations, visual soil/water tests, and analysis, irrigation audits, tree trimming cost and removal price range estimates, tree planting and more. Tree pruning consults advice can be details like when to trim, specifics on cutting branches and providing trimming costs, and how to prune fruit trees including apple tree trimming and tree trimming tool usage.



Tree Risk Assessments

In our basic ground-level one-tree risk assessments, we used a standard and systematic methodology to identify and assess hazardous trees and/or tree parts with their potential targets to determine a risk probability on a given time scale. After we determine the overall risk that a tree or its parts pose, we subsequently recommend the necessary next steps to mitigate or eliminate that potential risk. I received my Tree Risk Assessment Qualification through the International Society of Arboriculture in 2017 “The TRAQ program offers tree care professionals the opportunity to expand their knowledge of the fundamentals of tree risk assessment by learning a standardized, systematic process for assessing tree risk and providing information to tree owners and risk managers for making informed decisions that will promote the safety of people and property and enhance tree benefits, health, and longevity.”



Tree Health Assessments

We want all the trees and plants in your landscape healthy, vigorous, and beautiful. In the goal of optimizing tree health and aesthetics, we first identify any trees or plants that may be struggling, determine what the potential issues are, and then take the necessary actions in correcting any problems that may be the causes. This can often be a buried root crown, a wound, decay in the tree, bad soil conditions like compaction, poor drainage or lack of organic matter, pest or disease problems, poor irrigation, root damage, branch structural defects, bad trunk connections or other issues impacting the health, vigor and stability of the tree.



Pruning Recommendations

Many trees require pruning as part of their development, management, and aesthetics in the home landscape. During a consultation, we identify which trees need to be pruned and determine when, why and how to prune them. There are various reasons to prune a tree or branch including but not limited to clearance, size control, vigor, end weight reduction, structure, form, aesthetics, fruit production, and more. If the job is within my scale and height limit, I will be happy to provide an estimate to do the work myself at a later date. If the tree is out of scope for me to do on my own, I will recommend the best tree services I am partnered with in the area that are fully equipped to take on larger trees.



Tree Establishment - Planting and Early Care


It is been said that the "best time to plant a tree was yesterday and the second best time is right now." Planting new trees always feels good, however, depending on the circumstances, up to half of the new trees planted may not survive to maturity. Therefore it is crucial to not only plant the right tree in the right place correctly but also care for it in it's early years to ensure it's establishment and continued growth. This is why we emphasize that tree establishment is more than just planting and hoping for the best, it involves frequent watering, monitoring and care, especially in the first three to five years. There are many mistakes that can be made from the start, from choosing bad nursery stock to planting trees in the wrong climate zone for their species, to planting the root crowns too deeply, all of which can set you up for failure from the beginning, wasting valuable time, money and resources. If we stick to the best tried, true and science-based practices that are becoming standard in the arboricultural industry, we can make all our efforts worthwhile as strive to establish more and more trees in our various landscapes.



Don't put it off any longer... what actions will you take right now?


Schedule a consultation today! cyclingarborist.com






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