Tree & Shrub Care
Complete Tree & Shrub Care
Protect the most valuable assets in your landscape—your trees and shrubs—and ensure their vibrant, sustained growth with our specialized care services. Healthy woody plants are the backbone of any beautiful property, providing structure, shade, and seasonal beauty. We offer a comprehensive program that includes proactive insect control, preventative disease management, and targeted fertilization to safeguard these essential investments from the many pressures they face in our Central New York environment.
Trees and shrubs represent a long-term investment in your property’s beauty and value. However, they are susceptible to a wide range of stressors, from nutrient-deficient soil and invasive pests to damaging diseases and intense Browse from wildlife. Our professional tree and shrub care program is designed to be a complete health and wellness plan. We take a holistic, science-based approach, diagnosing potential problems before they become severe and providing the essential nutrients and protection needed for your plants to not only survive, but thrive for years to come.
Protecting Your Investment: Deer Repellant
In Oneonta and the surrounding areas, intense deer pressure is one of the single greatest threats to landscape plants. A single night of Browse can destroy prized shrubs, deform young trees, and erase months of growth. To combat this, we offer a professional deer repellant service. Our program involves periodic applications of effective, professional-grade repellants that render your plants unpalatable to deer. These products are more durable and effective than consumer-grade alternatives. By creating a powerful taste and smell deterrent, we train deer to bypass your property in search of a more appealing food source, providing crucial protection for vulnerable plants like arborvitae, yews, and hydrangeas, especially through the fall and winter months.
Health Management: Insect, Disease & Mite Control
Our local environment is home to numerous insects, mites, and diseases that can quickly damage or kill unprotected trees and shrubs. Our Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach focuses on proactive monitoring and early, targeted intervention.
Insect & Mite Control: We identify and treat a wide variety of damaging pests, including aphids that distort new growth, mites that cause discoloration, and destructive scale insects. We also provide solutions for devastating invasive pests like the Emerald Ash Borer and Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. Our treatments, including the use of dormant oils and precisely timed insecticidal applications, are targeted to the pest's specific life cycle for maximum effectiveness while minimizing environmental impact.
Disease Management: Fungal diseases like apple scab, powdery mildew, and anthracnose can defoliate and weaken trees and shrubs. Our preventative disease management programs focus on applying fungicides at critical times—often in the spring as new leaves emerge—to prevent these pathogens from taking hold. By protecting the foliage, we ensure the plant can effectively photosynthesize and store energy for robust health all year long.
Nourishment for Lasting Vitality: Advanced Fertilization
Many residential landscapes lack the rich, organic soil of a natural forest, leaving trees and shrubs deficient in essential nutrients. Our advanced fertilization services are designed to replenish these nutrients and promote vigorous growth, better flowering, and stronger natural defenses against pests and disease. We offer several professional application methods tailored to your plants’ specific needs:
Deep Root Fertilization: This is our most effective method for nourishing established trees and large shrubs. We use specialized equipment to inject a liquid blend of balanced, slow-release nutrients and organic matter directly into the root zone, past the turfgrass. This bypasses surface runoff, reduces weed growth, and delivers food precisely where the plant needs it most, while also helping to aerate compacted soil.
Surface Drench: For smaller shrubs or plants in contained beds, a liquid surface drench is an excellent option. The fertilizer is applied to the soil surface around the base of the plant and watered in, allowing it to soak down to the shallow feeder roots quickly and efficiently.
