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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 a nuisance for the trees. This is a fungal disease…
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 original growth form, only not so pretty. Topiaries are woody…
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 Denton County. There are actually a number of different cultivars…
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 open flowers. So, the conditions have to be just right…
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 fail completely until a later time, sometimes a few years…
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 real problems if: 1) Planted in heavy clay soils 2)…
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, crabgrass and Dallisgrass can also kill your trees. Red oaks…
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 trees in your landscape a good soaking during this period…
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 is true in almost every transaction and is true when…
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 pines that are seen growing in Lewisville and Flower Mound.…