TREEOLOGY – BE INFORMED
Donovan Arborists
Our ISA Certified Arborists ensure that you get the highest quality tree care.
We offer free estimates for tree planting, trimming, removal, cabling and bracing.
We believe in being proactive in preventing insect infestations and disease outbreaks.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Once trees go dormant in late fall most people assume the tree is shut down for the year. This is not true.
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.
Coloradans are fortunate to have a number of elegant pine trees native to their state. Lodgepole, Limber, Piñon and Ponderosa pines thrive across the state from the plains to timberline making them among the most popular landscaping choices everywhere.
TREEOLOGYIt goes beyond pruning, general maintenance and occasional fertilization and instead focuses on preventing issues from arising in the first place.It’s hard to believe. Five days ago, 3 to 6 inches of snow accumulated in Denver, CO. The Farmer’s Almanac...