Summer 2010 Newsletter
Inside this Issue:
TLC Update
Critters & Cruds
Tree of the Quarter
Tree Care Tips - Give Your Trees TLC
Dear Friends and Fellow Tree Lovers
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TLC Update
Critters & Cruds
Tree of the Quarter
Tree Loving Care has been very blessed and we want to thank each and every one of you. If you have been pleased with our work, please tell others, if not, please tell us so we can correct it.
We had very good moisture early in the year and enough since then to keep everything going. In west Texas, you can’t ask for a lot more than that. The early rains have flushed out some of the salts that we tend to accumulate from our irrigation water. In most cases, not enough to completely solve soil problems, but it does help.
James Tuttle and Anthony Rivera went to the Tx Tree Climbing Championship in Plano last month. James was head judge and Anthony was a ground technician on the Aerial Rescue event. It was Anthony’s 4th competition and James’ 18th.
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Oak Wilt seems to be attacking more trees than usually this year. Perhaps it has some to do with having a little more rainfall the last couple of years and a resultant increase in root growth. We even have an outbreak of an Oak Wilt center that seems to have been dormant for 15 years.
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Southwest White Pine (Pinus strobiformis), which was grouped in with Limber Pine (Pinus flexilis) for many years, grows in the Davis Mountains and the Guadalupe Mountains of far SW Texas. It is a tall graceful tree. It is hard to find in nurseries, but well worth is if you can find it. I know that a local entomologist was growing some several years ago at their place in NM. It is quite drought tolerant and should do very well for us in most of the western half of Texas.
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Tree Care Tips - Give Your Trees TLC
The old saying about an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure certainly applies to trees and the damage that can be caused by spring and summer thunderstorms. Split trees, broken limbs and lightning strikes can devastate a tree and once it happens, it is difficult to impossible to correct. Narrow crotches need to be cabled and/or braced. Heavy limbs may need to be lightened and lightning rods may need to be installed in high value trees. If you have these potential tree problems, please call the office at 785-TREE to set up an appointment with one of our Certified Arborists to assess the situation and prescribe a solution.
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07.05.2010. 08:46
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