With our recent cold overnight temps may trees and shrubs that pushed out new growth or leaves early in the season have begun to show signs of damage.  A variety [...]

By: Tig Kabia [email protected] Convergent Lady Bird Beetles (released on a Camellia loaded with Tea Scale) are voracious predators of aphids, Scale crawlers, whiteflies, mites, and other soft-bodied insects. For [...]

In most cities and urban areas trees aren’t the only things that occupy the sky above.  Many areas have overhead utility lines for power, phone, internet and TV that are [...]

Safety training in the tree care industry provides many different types of training, from proper use of various types of equipment to the proper use of various climbing and rigging [...]

Mulch provides a whole range of benefits to trees both new and old.  Installing mulch properly around your tree is pretty simple but very important. Mulch Benefits: Regulates soil temperatures [...]

Cankerworms are a yearly spring time visitor here in Charlotte.  They bring with them tree damage and a mess.  There are 3 different ways we can help prevent them from [...]

The many colors you see in fall are actually already present in the leaves.  They are in the form of carotenoids and anthocyanins.  They are just masked by the chlorophyll [...]

NC State confirmed this week the first cases of crepe myrtle bark scale in North Carolina. One of our landscape partners first noticed something wrong with crepe myrtles in 2 [...]

Orange Striped Oak Worm is a seasonal pest in the Charlotte area that primarily feeds on Oak trees. They generally hatch/emerge in mid-late July and feed into August. They hatch as yellowish [...]

Not everyone was born a tree lover.  I know!  It's hard to believe.  Some people actually need to be convinced that trees are a good thing.  Take a look around [...]