Archives for December 2019
Summer is a great month for gardeners. Finally, you can see all your hard work come to fruition as you sit under your large shady tree after a morning of gardening and admire your beautiful shrubs and flower beds. But what do you do if, while you are enjoying the shade of your tree, you look up and notice a couple of precarious branches that look as though they might blow off in a strong wind? It’s time for professional tree A beautifully landscaped garden with rolling lawns and magnificent trees is a dream for many home buyers! After all, who doesn’t love a nice piece of land full of mature trees? But beware – trees can also be a liability and big trees can lead to big bills! Large trees that are growing too close to your house can be a costly hazardous. Before you buy a home because you have fallen in love with the mature trees and well-established Beautiful trees are a gardener’s dream, but they don’t last forever and once a tree has died or been damaged it needs to be removed. Unfortunately, after the branches and trunk have been taken away, you are still left with an unsightly stump in the middle of your beautiful garden. Stump removal is an essential part of tree removal if you want to restore your lawn or plant a new tree. There are two ways to get rid of stumps, you The emerald ash borer has become the scourge of Canadian forests, destroying millions of ash trees and altering the landscape forever. But fortunately, the government isn’t sitting back and doing nothing or relying on homeowners to deal with the problems in their own backyard. Municipalities and local authorities across the country are doing everything in their power to rid Canada of this highly invasive and destructive jewel green beetle. Since the emerald ash borer, that feeds on various ash species, is native A long hot summer is wonderful for people, but it can have a negative effect on the healthy growth and development of young and newly planted trees, making proper watering and tree pruning essential. Older trees have deep roots that can reach the water far below the surface and find it easier to survive than young trees with a shallower and less developed root system. Spot the signs of drought stress in young trees? Pay attention to the young trees in Stump removal is a necessary part of gardening and most people simply opt for stump grinding, but all wood is beautiful and even the most unsightly stumps can be turned into beautiful works of art or fun and functional pieces of furniture. All you need is a little time and a good dose of imagination and you will be able to create something unique and useful out of what was once an eyesore. A basic DIY stump project is to leave Canada’s beautiful ash forests are under threat from the invasive and ferocious emerald ash borer, a small jewel green beetle that is native to northeast Asia and was first seen on the North American continent in 2002. The larvae of the emerald ash borer burrow and chew under the bark of ash trees, cutting off their supply of nutrients and water, and are so destructive that they can reduce a healthy tree to dead wood in a year or two. The The first European settlers brought with them a great many things to make their new country feel more like home. One of those familiar comforts was great, big European trees, like horse chestnuts, Norway maples, European white birches, and Scotch pines. And it is not just the early settlers that introduced invasive trees into Canada, people continue to do so to this day. Unfortunately, many of these non-native plants have had a negative effect on our ecosystem and tree removal | Categories Emerald Ash Borer Archives |