The Five Best Shade Trees for North Texas
Trees add value to any landscape. They offer shade in the hot summer months and can significantly lower your air conditioning bills. And as any homeowner or business owner in ...
How to Water Your Trees During the Summer
Watering trees during the summer can be tricky. To avoid underwatering or overwatering, you need a well-thought-out irrigation plan.
Emerald Ash Borer – It is Here and Active in Denton County
Background The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) has been discovered in Denton, County. The ISA Certified Arborists want to make sure that our customers and the community at large have accurate ...
Master Arborist Consultations, Tree Health & Care
Questions to Ask Your Tree Care Company
1. Do they have insurance? A. General liability to protect your property if it’s damaged. There are many hazards in tree work, do not hire someone without the proper protection. ...
Tree Health & Care, Trees & Insects
Fall Webworms – They’re Back in Town
After being mostly absent for the past 3-4 years, the Fall webworm is back in town and much more noticeable this year. They never really left completely, but the population ...
Post Oaks and Hot Weather
In the summertime when the weather is hot… Mungo Jerry, “In the SummerTime” I was 16 when Mungo Jerry’s song, “In the Summertime” came out in 1970. What a great ...
Tree Health & Care, Trees & Insects
All About Bagworms
Bagworms are tiny little caterpillars that turn into moths. They feed on trees such as Junipers, red cedar’s, arborvitae, Leyland Cypress, and other evergreen type trees.
What’s wrong with my Photinias?
With the mild, humid weather North Texas has had recently, Red Tip Photinias have been hit hard with a fungal infection called Entomosporium Leaf Spot. “Leaf Spot” for short. Leaf ...
Are Your Trees Planted Too Deep?
Trees that have been planted too deep are, unfortunately, a very common problem in the urban landscape. How can you tell if your tree is planted too deep? First, a ...
Root Flare Exposure – Do It Yourself
The most important physiological factor in the health of a tree is the status of the Root Flare area at that base of the tree. It is very important that ...
Tree Health & Care, Trees & Insects
Why are My Crape Myrtles Black?
That unappealing black coating on your tree is actually a harmless byproduct of a bug! The black substance is called sooty mold and grows on the waste product of an ...
Emerald Ash Borer and Your Ash Trees
You may have heard on the news that the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is now in North Texas. Some of these reports will sound alarmist and are designed to generate ...
What is a Tree Worth to Your Home?
Investing in tree care may seem like a discretionary expense that you really cannot afford. However, trees have a large economic impact on their owners and the communities in which they ...
What’s That Sticky Stuff Coming From My Trees?
Honeydew is a sticky, sugary liquid that… is insect waste. Insects called aphids (and some scale species) suck on plant sap and secrete a liquid we all know as honeydew. ...
Tree Health & Care, Watering Trees
How to Water Your Trees
Please take a second to watch this short video on how to water your trees! These tree watering tips are the generally accepted practices in the tree care industry as ...
Bradford Pear vs. the Wind: and the Winner is…
Just a short video that one of our customers happened to capture of their Bradford Pear in a strong wind event. The tree lost. This is what happens to Bradford ...
Master Arborist Consultations, Tree Health & Care
Why a “Y” is Not Good in a Tree
Trees have an amazing ability to keep themselves upright for years, sometimes hundreds of years. However, a structural flaw called co-dominant stems can cause a tree to prematurely fail. Co-dominant ...
What’s Happening to My Live Oak Trees?
This spring (2020) has seen almost every Live Oak in Denton County infected with a disease call Oak Anthracnose. This sound like a terrible disease, but it is really just ...
Topiaries Gone Wild!
Topiaries are not a maintenance free plant! I see many topiary plants in front of houses that are not maintained and after a few years, they revert to the plant’s ...
The End of Every Bradford Pear
The Bradford Pear is a cultivar of the Callery Pear which was collected from China in the early 1900s. They have been planted widely as yard and roadway trees in ...
Fire Blight and Ornamental Pears
Every few years, we get a lot of Fire Blight in ornamental pears in Denton County. The disease is caused by a bacteria and enters into the tree’s tissues via ...
High winds? Inspect Your Cedar Elms (and All Trees) Afterward
With the recent storms in Flower Mound and Lewisville, it is an important to inspect your trees for limb cracks. Often a limb may crack in a storm, but not ...
Cedar Elm- A Great Tree, But Prone to Splitting
The Cedar Elm (Ulmus crassifolia) is a great tree for Denton County. It is native and lives well with the other two common native trees ? Post Oak (Quercus ...
Italian Cypress – Normally a Hardy Tree, But Real Problems in the Winter and Spring of 2017
The Italian Cypress is a beautiful upright evergreen that grows in a straight column up to 20 to 25 feet or more. It thrives in North Texas, but can have ...
Live Oak – A Wonderful Tree But Not Always the Best Choice
The Live oak is not native to Denton County, but thrives exceptionally well in our area. It is native across the southern gulf coastal plain over into central Texas. There ...
The Biggest Weeds in Your Turf Lawn are Your Trees
I try to impress on people that when they are trying to control weeds in their lawn that the largest weed is the trees. The same chemicals that control dandelions, ...
What Has Happened to My Hackberry Trees?
The unusual weather this year has set up conditions for a very obscure moth to come out of obscurity and defoliate many of the hackberries in southern Denton County. The ...
Beautiful Post Oak in Flower Mound
Sometimes developers, the city, and the homeowners get it right. This park is just south of 1171 on Regency Park Court. The “Lone Tree” is a gorgeous Post oak that ...
Little Round Bugs Invading My Patio and House!
This is not necessarily tree related, but it is something I haven’t seen before at our yard and house in Highland Village, Texas. Over the past few days, thousands of ...
Brown Bumps On My Oak Twigs?
What are those little brown humps that cover my oak twigs? These are lecanium scale insects. The lecanium scale can be debilitating to the host plant, rarely killing it. The ...
What’s that “White Fungus” on My Post Oaks?
As we get into August this year, the post oaks in Denton County are showing a lot of white on their leaves. This is not a fungus or serious disease ...
Oak Tassels – what are those worms on my driveway?
Newly emerging leaves on a red oak in the spring with male flowers This spring season has brought with it an abundance of oak flowers or “tassels.” I have noticed ...
Tree Health & Care, Watering Trees
Water – Trees Can’t Live Without It, But It Can Kill Them
We are having a dry spring so far and the trees need water as they begin the spring flush of growth. It would be a good idea to give the ...
Pruning – You Get What You Pay For
In our daily lives, we buy and sell many things. We all want value in these transactions and the adage, is still true, you get what you pay for? This ...
My Palm Trees are Dying! Part II
Well, for the second year in a row, we’ve had very hard freezes. Last year (2010) we saw temperatures down to around 15 degrees and about 50% of the Mexican ...
Texas Trees, Tree Health & Care
Tree Care in Lewisville and Flower Mound – A bit of East Texas
Pine trees are not native to the Lewisville area, yet they have been planted extensively, and in some areas do quite well. Slash Pine and Loblolly pine are the large ...
Pruning Trees in the Spring – Not the Best Time
Spring is here! And we are noticing that our trees are budding out and starting to grow. We now notice them, while in the winter they seemed so docile, now ...
Pruning & Trimming- It’s Tree Surgery
Why do we prune trees? Don’t they do well by themselves without our help? We ask a lot of the trees that grow in an urban environment. Space is limited, ...
Staking Trees at Planting Time – It’s Important To Do It Right
Trees are often staked with guy wire or straps at planting time. Sometimes this is necessary due to the size of the tree in relation the root ball and the ...
My Palm Trees Are Dying!
I am hoping that it isn’t true, but unfortunately, it may be. Palm trees are native where it rarely freezes, and we experienced a very hard freeze on January 9-10, ...
Root Flare Coverups – A Great Video Tutorial
One of my mentors is Tyson Woods, an arborist in Dallas who has been caring for the trees of Highland Park for a long time. He created this video a ...
Tree Care Professionals – Is Your Tree Care Company Certified?
The marketplace is full of companies and individuals that offer to perform work on your trees. How do you know which company has the education and experience to provide professional ...
Mistletoe – ‘Tis the Season to Remove It
Now that the leaves have dropped from your deciduous trees, you may notice Mistletoe infections in the crowns. Even though we like mistletoe as a Christmas and holiday decoration (or ...