Trees and Cold
As our temperatures have dipped lately any water left outside quickly freezes and turns solid. As many probably remember from middle school biology, freezing water and living cells don’t mix. [...]
As our temperatures have dipped lately any water left outside quickly freezes and turns solid. As many probably remember from middle school biology, freezing water and living cells don’t mix. [...]
Hello fine customers of Heartwood, The colder winter weather is rapidly approaching. Fall is the time when plants and insects are starting to shut down and take cover till spring. [...]
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 tig@heartwoodtree.com 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 [...]