Tree Care and Tree Maintenance

A good tree care program begins with a general understanding of man's role in relation to trees. Regarding your own trees, you will usually have four possible courses of action to choose from. Which action you choose to take will have a profound effect on your trees. The following four illustrations will probably fit your situation but you should recognize the result of your decision.

A tree sucker sprout and tree water sprout can provide clues to tree health, indicating that the tree is either very vigorous or has injury or dead wood above the sprouts.

Your tree has both a natural tolerance to drought and benefits from proper care. You can't change a tree's natural tolerance to drought but you can provide water to that tree that most protects during periods of low moisture.

Ways to Ice and Snow Proof Your Trees

Seven Ways to protect trees and property from storm damage by prevention and planning

Trees in fall are beginnng their dormant phase. Trees may seem to be inactive but the fact is they need to be winterized - protected and cared for to remain healthy, free from diseases and insects. Here is how you winterize your trees.

Hundreds of thousands of shade and street trees in the United States are storm damaged by wind, ice and lightning each year.

How to Mulch Your Tree

Tree roots that grow on the surface are difficult to mow or walk over and can effect the growth and health of nearby grass and groundcovers. Here are tips on protecting that tree from root damage.

Tree staking is never done with the intention of harming a tree but can be devastating to future tree health.

Pruning is essential in developing a tree with a strong structure and desirable form. Here is how to do it.

Tips on how to quickly kill your favorite tree.

Fertilizers are important to growing young trees. Find out when to apply, how to use and what fertilizers to buy.

Take this tree wellness quiz to see just how prepared you are to successfully raise a healthy tree.

Trees In Your Back Yard - Forestry 101

This site offers guidelines on how to care for trees to keep them healthy and to protect them from wounds.

A good tree-care program begins with a general understanding of man's role in relation to trees.

A tree is considered to be wounded when its bark is broken so that either its inner bark or wood is exposed to the air.

If pruning is necessary, prune dead and dying branches properly to help the tree heal its branch wounds faster and to reduce the chances for infection that could lead to decay.

There are things in nature that will compromise a trees health. They may or may not be easy to prevent by pruning or thinning (see cankers, splits and hollows).

Try to prevent wounds first, but when a tree is wounded, take these steps:

Follow this step by step prescription for preventing or minimizing tree damage caused by decay: