The first weeks of fall are an important time for keeping your landscape in shape for winter and ready to wake up healthy and happy come spring.
Winterizing Your Landscape
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Why You Should Hug Your Trees
Are you a tree-hugger? No? Well, maybe you should reconsider. Some recent studies make the case that it can brings health and psychological benefits.
What We Can Learn from Tree Rings
You probably know that counting the concentric rings in a cross-section of a tree trunk can tell the tree’s age. But that’s just the beginning of the wealth of information contained in the rings. Scientists can examine and test the rings to uncover years, even centuries, worth of knowledge about climate, atmospheric changes, and local geography.
Prepare for Spring Planting – What You Can Do Now
Your landscape may be hibernating for the winter, but you’re not, so use your yardwork hiatus to get things ready to hit the ground running come spring.
Compost: What to Use Before Spring Planting Starts
Healthy soil not only benefits turf and plant growth, it saves water, too! It works so well, in fact, that Denver Water requires that any landscaping of new construction must conform to its standards for soil amendments in order to conserve water in the areas it serves.
How Often Should You Be Watering Your Trees?
If you have lived in the Rockies for any length of time, you know that evergreens tend to do very well in this climates.
With needles rather than leaves, spruce trees and ponderosa pines don’t lose their needles like leafy trees. Evergreens thrive in this environment, yet they are not typically considered a shade-tree.
5 Signs of An Unhealthy Tree
Don’t wait until the tree in your yard is dead to take action
If a tree falls in a neighborhood and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? It might, except that you’re likely not to hear the tree noise above the screams from neighbors about the resulting damage.
Treating Iron Chlorosis in Maple and Oak Trees in the Denver Metro Area
Iron chlorosis is the yellowing of the leaf tissue caused by an iron deficiency. In most cases, the veins in the leaf remain green. In more severe cases, the whole leaf will turn yellow.
The Benefits of Fertilizing Trees in Late Fall
Once trees go dormant in late fall most people assume the tree is shut down for the year. This is not true.
Tree Wrap Protects Against Sunscald
Just like a toddler’s tender skin, the bark of young trees hasn’t had time to toughen up. Colorado’s winter weather is particularly hard on immature trees with its extreme fluctuations in temperature and moisture.