Winter 2009 Newsletter
Inside this Issue:
Dear Friends and Fellow Tree Lovers
TLC Update
Critters & Cruds
Tree of the Quarter
Tree Care Tips - Give Your Trees TLC
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Dear Friends and Fellow Tree Lovers
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at Tree Loving Care. We have been very blessed this year and hope you have a very blessed holiday
season and coming year.
While you are out looking at Christmas lights, please come by to watch out animated display. We are 7 miles from Loop 289 on US 62 (Brownfield Hwy) just past Wolfforth. There are over 100,000 lights in the display and is animated to the music that also is broadcasted on our radio signal FM101.5.
TLC Update
Tree Loving Care is proud to announce the association of Heath Dean. Heath has over 10 years experience in arboriculture. David Rios will celebrate 10 years with Tree Loving Care this quarter. Thanks David.
James Tuttle will attend the 24th annual Think Tree
conference in Albuquerque, NM, in January. This conference is always an outstanding source of information on the latest advances in tree care.
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Critters & Cruds
We continue to have a problem with Eriococcus scale on Red Oaks. Dormant Oil is a good management tool for this critter as well as many other sap sucking critters can. We will
begin our dormant oil program the first or second week of January. Now that Bermuda grasses are dormant, winter weeds are flourishing. It is time to apply pre and post emergent herbicide on Bermuda lawns. Call us at 806.785.8733 to schedule an appointment today.
Tree of the Quarter
Alligator Juniper, Juniperus deppeana, is a small growing tree with blue/grey foliage. It grows in
far west Texas from the Guadalupe and Davis mountains up to central New Mexico. It is a common
tree near Ruidoso below 7000 ft elevation. These areas are all arid, with an average rainfall of less than 14 inches.
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Tree Care Tips - Give Your Trees TLC
Winter has traditionally been the season for pruning. There is nothing magical about the time, but we don't prune Oaks February through May. The structure of trees can be more easily seen. It is also easier to spot defects. Inspection of trees is
something that should be done every year at the minimum and after every big wind or ice storm. If you would like one of our Certified Arborists to inspect your trees, call 806.785.8733 to
set up an appointment.
We would be delighted to give your trees the TLC they need.
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12.23.2009. 05:00