Our team uses the latest advancements in plant health care to safely and effectively mitigate pests, fungal infections, disease, and noxious weeds in your landscape through targeted treatments. Combined with our soil health services, your trees will have everything they need to battle the challenges they may face in an unpredictable climate. When appropriate, we use an Integrated Pest Management approach where a technician visits your property on a regular basis throughout the growing season to only treat what is needed, reducing the amount of chemicals introduced into the environment while providing effective mitigation of any issues that are present.

By injecting directly into the soil around the base of trees and shrubs, we add carefully-measured amounts of targeted treatment and/or nutrients that are absorbed by roots and taken up into the tree. The treatment remains in the trees’ or shrubs’ system providing a ready supply of nutrients and/or a preventative defense against pests and disease. This approach has the added benefit of reducing the risk of exposure to treatment because it is not aerated as occurs with spray treatments.

When direct, fast-acting intervention is necessary to combat detrimental conditions, our plant health care technicians utilize direct trunk injections that deliver small amounts of concentrated treatments that are taken directly up the trunk through the xylem tissue. We use this treatment for both responsive mitigation as well as preventative, systemic protection, and because of the direct delivery, this application is among the safest choices when there is risk or concern about environmental exposure to treatments by wildlife, people, or pets.

Nature has its own defenses, and through advances in plant health care science we are able to amplify and leverage these assets in fighting pests. Otherwise innocuous Ladybugs are fierce predators of aphids, which infest trees and shrubs during the heat of summer. Synthesized beetle pheromones hung on trees in liquid-filled packets send a biological signal to beetles that the tree is occupied and that they need to move on to their next potential host. These are just two examples of many natural tools available when other treatments are not appropriate.

Water is the lifeblood of trees. Extended dry periods without irrigation in early winter or spring when the ground is thawed, watering restrictions, or the significant needs of newly-planted trees are just a few reasons that you may need to add supplementary water. From gator bags that release a steady trickle of water to a 4000 gallon tanker truck, we have the resources to provide your trees with the water they need to grow and thrive.