Category: Sick Tree
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Check List for a Tree Health Check-Up
Reading a few articles online isn’t going to make you an arborist. But, if you insist on making your own diagnosis here is a good check list of things to look for. My preferred use of this info would be used as your tool for interviewing professionals. Here is a form you can print up.…
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Fall Color on Live Oak Trees? Senescence.
Live Oaks are semi-evergreen; so, why am I writing about fall color on a live oak? Sometimes live oaks will produce fall color. But, usually not in the fall. When it happens it’s in the winter. I was somewhere between Hamilton Pool and Johnson City driving between jobs when I ran across these shining examples.
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Tree Struck by Lightning? What a Lightning Strike Really Looks Like.
It’s funny to me what gets “diagnosed” as lightning strikes. It seems to me the average homeowner thinks the only two afflictions known to trees are oak wilt and lightning. Hopefully, this simple post will shed some light for many of you wanting to know if your tree was struck by lightning, and if so,…
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Soil Restructuring. An Important Part of Tree Care.
Soil restructuring is one of the most powerful tools we have for tree health management. The idea is to till the soil; improving its structure will allow valuable air and water to more easily penetrate the soil. While fundamental in gardening theory, this task is not easy at the scale of a large tree.
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Tree Fertilizer Part 1. An Introduction.
Fertilizing your tree will provide a big impact to the health of your tree in both the short term and long term. More than pruning, more than any other tree care service. There is a lot to know about tree fertilizers. This article is meant to be an introduction to tree fertilizer. I highly recommend…
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How Summer Heat Stress Affects Your Trees
Summer heat stress is one of the number one tree killers I run into. Okay, realistically no tree ever dies from just one problem, but rather a cumulative affect of many stress factors. Heat and drought stress are stress factor that almost all trees in the central Texas area deal with on an annual basis.…
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Is Ball Moss Killing My Tree?
I get asked this question very often. Ball moss is something that we’ve all seen and are all familiar with, but there are still plenty of questions surrounding it and what it does.
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Herbicide Damage To a Tree. Weed-n-Feed for Your Lawn is Killing Your Trees.
Herbicide damage is one of the biggest tree killers I run into. Weed-n-feed products are the number one culprits. If you buy a bag of fertilizer from your local do-it-yourself store make sure that the bag does not have weed control mixed in with the fertilizer. Most weed control products will affect boad leaf plants…
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Is my tree sick?
There are a few tricks you should know that will clue you in to knowing if you have a sick tree. This article won’t help you make a full diagnosis, but it will give you some tools so you’ll know if you need to start being concerned about your trees. Written by board certified master…
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What to do about a sick tree
Reviving a sick tree is not simple. This article is geared to help you understand some of fundamentals for reviving sick trees. Written by board certified master arborist Keith Brown of Austin, TX.