Arbor Specialties - Tree Care and Landscaping, South Shore MA
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Arbor Specialties - Tree Care and Landscaping, South Shore MA
This is a holistic approach to care for landscape plantings including grasses, shrubs and trees. PHC programs often implement Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies to keep plants free of pest insects and diseases. This allows management of plant care to reduce the use of pesticides by focusing of maintaining plant health first. It offers property owners a thoughtful solution to protect their landscape plantings, helping to keep trees, shrubs and lawns healthy and pest free while at the same time minimizing risk to the environment
A plant health care program is designed to help protect your landscape plantings by having a plant expert routinely make inspection visit to check your shrubs and trees. Monitoring visits are made during the growing season to inspect all the trees and shrubs on your property. During the visit any insect and or disease infections that are discovered will be treated. A summary of the inspection and treatments will be left at the end of the visit. Also applications of fertilizer and micro nutrients maybe made as needed to help improve vigor of key ornamental plants. We offer this high level of service to all of our clients on the south shore.
A tree spray program in the traditional sense is a pest specific treatment program that is designed to keep a selected plant or similar type plants free of specific pest. The tree care industry often refers to this approach as target sprays or treatments. After a pest infestation is identified, a treatment program can implemented to help control or eliminated the pest from specific plants or trees in a landscape. All of our applications are made by licensed applicators using the most benign materials available that are effective and gentle on the environment. We have equipment that is designed to reach the tallest of trees when needed. We also offer alternative methods of pest management such as trunk injection and soil injection. Some of the pest below are common to our landscapes in eastern Massachusetts and can be easily managed with traditional spray programs.
An introduced pest insect from Asia that attacks Hemlocks. This insect is easily identified by the white cottony masses that are often found on the undersides of needles of the Hemlock tree. It is easily treated with horticultural oil applied to foliage as a spray, or soil applied systemic insecticide or a trunk injection. Many of these treatments can be applied throughout the growing season.
An insect accidently imported from Europe that is often seen in November, December and sometimes into January as an adult moth. The eggs hatch in early Spring into the immature caterpillar stage that causes significant foliage damage to host tree such as Maple, Oak, Beech, Apple, and Crab Apple. Treatment is focused on protecting the foliage of trees and is applied during the caterpillar stage which feeds on foliage in the Spring. There are many treatment options available to control this pest, including BT, Conserve, horticultural oil and other “Bio-rational” insecticides.
This is a diverse group of small shelled covered insects that attack a variety of landscape plants. They are relatively immobile and attach themselves to twigs, branches and leaves. They feed through a needle stuck into a plants cambium and suck out fluids from plants and over time, they weaken and kill plants. Often times, a black sooty mold will develop on infested plant and can be useful in diagnosing the presence of scale insects. This insect can a challenge to control and usually requires treatments of dormant oil followed up with multiple applications of insecticide during the crawler or immature stage of the insect. It may take two to three years of treatments to control or eliminate these pests from plantings.
A group of very small insects that attack many plants found in the landscape. These are very difficult to see for the untrained eye. Plants that have leaves or needles that off color, chlorotic (yellowing), or browning could be infested and should be inspected by an experience arborist or landscape professional. Left untreated these mites can cause dieback to plant stems and death to entire plants. Treatments include horticultural oil followed with miticides and are very effective in eliminating this damaging pest.
Scab, Anthracnose and Rust are some common foliar diseases found on many landscape plants such as Crab Apples, Dogwoods, Hawthorns and other shade trees. They can also attach fruit on Apples Pears, Grapes and other fruit bearing plants. They can cause brown, orange and yellowing spotting on leaves during the growing season and when heavily infested can lead to defoliation. Infestations of this disease also cause fruit to develop poorly and to drop prematurely. They can be difficult to control, but with carefully timed fungicide applications usually plants can be protect.
This is a process that allows arborist to feed your trees in “figurative sense”. Fertilizer is applied or injected in a liquid form to the root zone around the base of a tree under the canopy. Specialized injection needles are used to apply a balanced fertilizer in the soil’s sub surface near the water and nutrient absorbing rootlets. The small roots are then able to send this absorbed solution to the leaves, where the tree actually turns it into food or energy via photosynthesis. We are simply adding elements to the root zone of tree that are essential to plant growth. This fertilizer application is often performed during the growing season, mostly in the Spring or Fall. Beneficial fungi called mycorrhiza can also be applied with fertilizer. This natural beneficial fungi facilitates the uptake of nutrients from the soil into roots. We have the ability to perform this service and can be scheduled any time after an evaluation has been completed.
This treatment can help protect a plant’s foliage from harsh winter winds. It is often applied as a spray in the Fall to evergreen trees and shrubs to help protect against winter dieback.
Deer feeding on shrubs has become problem in many landscapes, we can provide a protection program that includes applications of products that help shield plants from feeding deer, and in some cases we even installed fencing and other devices to keep deer away.
