Holiday Lighting
Tree Loving Care provides holiday lighting and decor for Lubbock and the surrounding area. When you call to schedule a consultation, one of our designers will come out to your home, design a display especially for you. Christmas Décor by Tree Loving Care will install a display that will be the envy of the neighborhood. We can design a display on the computer and show you exactly what your display will look like. Service times fill up quickly, so schedule yours early. Call us at (806) 785-8733. Ask about early booking incentives! Part of your Christmas experience this year needs to be a visit to the animated light display in front of Christmas Decor by Tree Loving Care. The display is just west of Wolfforth on US 62 and has well over 100,000 lights. It is animated to Christmas music and the music is broadcast on an FM transmitter. You can see the display from the comfort of your car, or get out and walk around in the display. It is a 'must see'. Christmas Decor by Tree Loving Care will be lighting the home of a member of the armed forces again this year as a way of saying thank you for their service to our nation. This year, it will be part of the Wounded Warrior program and we will be decorating the home of Anthony and Jessica Villarreal. Watch for details.10.19.2012. 13:23
Pruning
Pruning can be good and pruning can be bad. It depends on a number of factors. Proper pruning should start early in the trees life and should be done sparingly. It does say in Proverbs 22:6 that you should train up a tree in the way it should grow and it will not depart from it when it is old (unless a big ice storm comes along). I may be paraphrasing, but I remember it saying something like that.
Pruning to develop a good structure is a great thing to do. The tree will have that same basic structure for the rest of its life, which may be well beyond yours.
Improper pruning often lasts the life of the tree also, especially if severe. Topping a tree is a practice that will probably never go away, but neither does the effects. Over thinning may in many cases be just as deleterious, but may not take as many years to overcome.
Pruning is a large part of the work that Tree Loving Care does and it is most often done because of people reasons. Raising the canopy for clearance on roofs, drives walks and more light, side pruning and heading back to clear utilities and other objects are all valid reasons to prune.
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has developed several standards for maintenance of trees that cover everything from transplanting to pruning to fertilization to safety. Tree Loving Care adheres to these standards.
Tree work is dangerous when everything is done right. Tree work from ladders, without proper knowledge and proper safety equipment can be downright scary. Our climbers regularly receive safety training and some compete in or judge the Texas Tree Climbing Championship.
02.12.2008. 08:00
Cabling & Bracing
There is one completely inescapable fact about the High Plains of West Texas, the wind blows. Chicago just thinks it is the windy city.
Sharp branch angles and co-dominant stems are weak branch unions that are much more susceptible to failure in a windstorm. Some trees have an inherent tendency to have sharp angle crotches. Many of these can be avoided by properly training young trees.
Multi-trunk trees have been widely planted over the last 40 years. Multi-trunk have, by definition, co-dominant stems.
As the branch or trunk increases in girth, bark becomes trapped and eventually becomes included in the wood. As weight, leverage, and wind sail increase, there comes a time that the amount of joined wood is not sufficient to withstand the forces. That is why Tree Loving Care tends to be pretty busy for the couple of days after every spring thunderstorm, doing storm clean up.
Cabling and bracing systems can add strength to trees and preserve the integrity of the tree for many years. They should also be inspected annually. Trees grow, wood rots and metal rusts.
TREE LOVING CARE may, in many cases, be able to add many years to the life of your tree with appropriate cabling and bracing.
02.02.2007. 01:00