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WHAT IS TREE CARE
What exactly is tree care anyway?
Tree Care is a holistic approach to evaluating a tree's health and needs. Tree Care involves many aspects of proper care and maintenance of a tree. The most important aspect of tree care is the ability for an arborist to observe, analyze, and assess a trees overall health. Once an assessment has been made of a tree, a proper action plan is reccommended and performed. This action can range from no maintenance at all, to pruning or even removal of a tree.
Tree Care Procedures
Tree Pruning
There are many types of tree pruning. The most common method for pruning a tree involves pruning the deadwood. This is a healthy and natural form of maintenance. Many times, pruning the deadwood out of a tree is a natural and recommended maintenance plan. It is appropriate to prune deadwood in a tree so the tree can avoid any diseased or open wounds that a dead limb can possess and possibly kill the tree.
Methods of pruning trees are as follows:
What exactly is tree care anyway?
Tree Care is a holistic approach to evaluating a tree's health and needs. Tree Care involves many aspects of proper care and maintenance of a tree. The most important aspect of tree care is the ability for an arborist to observe, analyze, and assess a trees overall health. Once an assessment has been made of a tree, a proper action plan is reccommended and performed. This action can range from no maintenance at all, to pruning or even removal of a tree.
Tree Care Procedures
Tree Pruning
There are many types of tree pruning. The most common method for pruning a tree involves pruning the deadwood. This is a healthy and natural form of maintenance. Many times, pruning the deadwood out of a tree is a natural and recommended maintenance plan. It is appropriate to prune deadwood in a tree so the tree can avoid any diseased or open wounds that a dead limb can possess and possibly kill the tree.
Methods of pruning trees are as follows:
- Crown Cleaning - Involves cleaning out the deadwood from the crown of a tree.
- Crown Reduction - Process of reducing the overall size of a canopy especially towards the top. It is also a part of windsailing. This is not to be confused with topping, as topping is not a recommended form of tree care
- Elevating - Is when the bottom most limbs of a tree are removed to allow for passage underway, to raise it up off a structure or other purposes.
- Thinning - Cutting out interior limbs so sunlight can better pass through a tree. This is also a part of windsailing. This also allows for better wind and airflow throughout the tree to lesson the stress on a trees roots during a heavy wind storm.
- Shaping - Mostly done on smaller trees and shrubs. This is what a customer does for beautification. Many times shaping involves using sheers to form a circular pattern, on a tree or shrubs canopy.
- Clearing limbs from a structure. Also know as zone clearance. If a trees limbs are interfering with the roof of a house, or are growing into a street or street sign, many times these limbs need to be cut back to clear a structure by a certain footage. Keep in mind that if cutting live limbs from a tree, you should never cut more than 30% of a trees live crown ratio.
Many of our clients have an abundance of trees on their land that need assessment and advice on tree care maintenance plans. Kenny Tree Inc has 1 certified Arborists on staff who can provide natural, detailed, and useful tree maintenance plans. For many tree species, depending on a trees age and size, it is good common maintenance to prune at least once every couple years.
Spraying
Many tree and landscape contractors will recommend spraying trees for insecticides, herbicides, and pesticides. Kenny Tree Inc. does not do any spraying of the trees. Kenny Tree Inc. believes in 100% organic tree care. There are occasions when a tree might need to be sprayed or have a systemic injection. Usually spraying or injection is appropriate only when a common issue is observed such as severe disease. Horticulture oils and soaps are a good alternative and usually provide great help to a tree in need. Keep in mind, that a good tree philosophy is that a tree can normally and usually does take care of itself and its wise to let nature run its course!
Though the work can be dangerous and could cause damage, rest assured that your property will be protected as if it were our own. Kenny Tree Inc. is fully licensed and insured.
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