Spring 2011 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 A few months ago, I think God must have been sitting on the throne, wondering
how he could bless James Tuttle. About that time, an old friend and client drove up
to the shop and wanted me to go out to his place and give him a price on removing
a dead tree that was leaning over the well house. We drove the 5 miles out to his
house and within an hour had made a deal on removing the dead tree, mowing the
Bermuda lawn that was a foot tall (first time he had set foot on the property in 8
months) and buying the property. I am now the proud owner of a 15 acre farm. I haven’t settled on the name of this farm. Can’t decide whether to call it TLC
Farm as an extension of the love we have for trees or Sunrise Farm to signify the
beginning of a new chapter in my life. In either case, we will grow a lot of vegetables.
For many years , I’ve had the great racket (and privilege) of having fun climbing your
trees all day, sending you a bill then processing the debris and selling it back to you.
Now, I will be using the composted part of that debris to grow vegetables to sell
them back to you. Read the full article in our newsletter [pdf] TLC Update The Texas Tree Climbing Championship is coming
up in only 2 months. It will be in Ft. Worth and Trinity
Park May 20-21. Come by and cheer on the climbers
from Tree Loving Care. Anthony Rivera has been a
technician on several events the last few years, but
plans to compete again this year.
Critters & Cruds
Siberian Elms are just now leafing out and the Elm
Leaf Beetle won’t be far behind. It is time to treat for
this insect. Don’t wait until the damage is severe to call.
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Tree of the Quarter
The Italian Stone Pine, Pinus
pinea, is native to southern Europe
and northern Africa. It's large open
crown becomes more flat topped
with age and performs very well in
our area. It grows to 80' in its native
range, but should be considerably
smaller here.
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Tree Care Tips - Give Your Trees TLC
Folks, it’s dry. Our soil will generally hold about 1” of moisture for a month. What that means is that if we get an inch of rain, a month later, the plants will just then begin to have no water available. This is of course, only an average. Clayey soils will hold a little more and very sandy soils will hold less.
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Winter 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
The severe ice storm at the end of January was devastating to many trees, but it did generate a great deal of business for us and most of the other tree services around town. For us, that was a silver lining to an otherwise very darkcloud. At Tree Loving Care, our name really does state our concern for love fortrees in general and the ones in your landscape in particular.
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TLC Update
Tree Loving Care is proud to have Theodore (Butch) Lathey, Certified Arborist TX3624A join the team. Butchwas manager of Asplundh operations for Xcel Energyin much of west Texas and eastern New Mexico. Critters & Cruds
Insects are cold blooded critters and normallysurvive winter, but severe cold will kill many insects. It depends mostly on how low the temperature gets. Around the end of the winter, they will be at their weakest.
Tree Loving Care has been very blessed this year and we would like tothank every one of our friends and clients for that blessing. We hope you havebeen as blessed and we wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Tree of the Quarter
Post Oak, Quercus stellata, isa very sturdy tree with a very largerange. There are very few in Lubbockand need to be used more. You dohave to be very patient, however. Post Oak are very sensitive to havingtheir roots disturbed and there isn't much more disturbing than losingmost of them in transplanting.
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Tree Care Tips - Give Your Trees TLC
It looks like we will finish about 8" above averagefor rainfall for the year. That is great, but it is sometimesa matter of "what have you done for me lately" and wehave had precious little lately. You do need to give yourentire landscape about an inch of moisture per monthduring the winter. For most sprinkler systems, that meansabout a half hour of run time per zone. However, youshould make sure by putting a rain gauge to measurethe output, if you’ve not done that in the last few years.
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12.18.2010. 12:48
Fall 2010 Edition
Inside this Issue:
TLC Update
Critters & Cruds
Tree of the Quarter
Tree Care Tips - Give Your Trees TLC
Dear Friends and Fellow Tree Lovers
It is hard to believe that Christmas is just around the corner. We will be sending decorating proposals out to re-install lights and decorations to our existing clients very soon.
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TLC Update
Fall is my favorite time of year. Warm days, cool nights and the knowledge that tree are beginning to prepare to go to bed and rest for the winter. And we can sell some of the litter that we spent the spring and summer hauling off back to you. WHAT A DEAL. Actually, we do have a little more firewood to sell this year than normal, but we will sell out before Christmas. Critters & Cruds
Most damaging insects that we deal with have done most, if not all of the damage that they will do for the year. Controlling most insect problems is more about timing than what chemical or organic technique or product you use. With many insects and diseases, you may have only a very small window of opportunity.
Tree Loving Care appreciates the many blessings that the year has brought. It has been a very busy summer. The abundant rain the last of June and first half of July has been very beneficial to trees, although pecans have such an abundant crop that we are dealing with an unusual amount of limbs breaking under the sheer weight of the crop. The 9-13 inches received during those 3 weeks flushed much of the salts out of the top of the soil profile. Bradford Pears and some of the more commonly chlorotic trees have flourished.
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Tree of the Quarter
Chinkapin Oak, Quercus muehlenbergii, prefers deep soils and is found in a broad swath of central Texas and in small isolated areas of the Trans-Pecos and in Post Oak Savannahs in Northeast Texas.
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Tree Care Tips - Give Your Trees TLC
The abundant rain earlier in the year was wonderful,but the rain since then has been pretty spotty. If you don’t get rain for 3 weeks, you should probably water. New trees that aren’t yet established should be watered twice per week except for the scheduled watering that does get a half inch or more of rain. That doesn’t mean that if you get a 2 inch rain,that you can go another 2 weeks. Remember, that is ONLY if your trees and shrubs that are not yet established.
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