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Steps to Protect Your Trees in Unpredictable Winter Weather

January 28, 2025

Steps to Protect Your Trees in Unpredictable Winter Weather

With two snowfalls this January, it’s clear that winter weather is becoming more variable than the mild winters of recent years. Protecting your trees from repeated weather events starts with setting up an appointment with one of our Certified Arborists to establish a tree care plan.

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New Year, New Landscape: Planning Your Spring Tree Care

January 21, 2025

New Year, New Landscape: Planning Your Spring Tree Care

Start the year off right by preparing your trees for a healthy spring. Winter is the ideal season to get ahead—start planning now with these tips.

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Helping Trees Recover After Snowstorms

January 14, 2025

Helping Trees Recover After Snowstorms

Snowstorms can be rough on trees, but with the proper care, they can bounce back. Here’s a quick guide to help your trees recover after heavy snow.

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What Does It Mean To Be TCIA Accredited?

November 14, 2022

What Does It Mean To Be TCIA Accredited?

We choose to maintain this status as a promise to our clients to deliver the highest quality service, as a promise to our employees to provide the safest possible work environment, as a promise to our community to learn and grow in the field of arboriculture and to always seek the best and most up-to-date information, practices and training.

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Dormant Season Pruning

November 14, 2018

Dormant Season Pruning

Why is it important to plan early for winter pruning?

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Making the Shade

January 24, 2018

Making the Shade

On a cold January morning, parents and volunteers from Timothy Road Elementary, New Urban Forestry, and the forestry program at UGA, gathered to plant 36 trees on the campus of the elementary school.

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The Gravity of Tree Felling

January 11, 2018

The Gravity of Tree Felling

Everyone knows someone who has cut down a tree. A friend, neighbor, grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, aunt, uncle, or "that guy". All of these examples are usually followed by a story of how "they dropped that tree right where they wanted" or, alternatively, "he crushed my car and we never spoke again."

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Biochar for Soil and Plant Health

January 10, 2018

Biochar for Soil and Plant Health

If you spend any time listening to or watching gardening shows you've probably heard of biochar, but you may still be wondering what, exactly, it is. Biochar is a permanent form of organic matter, kind of like compost that never degrades in the soil.

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Champion Trees

January 9, 2018

Champion Trees

Georgia is home to 20 national champion trees, one of which has a home here in Athens. That tree is the Georgia Oak which measures 77" in trunk circumference, 59' in height, and has a 65' crown spread.

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Tree Cabling

November 28, 2017

Tree Cabling

We have all witnessed the aftermath of a large limb failure on a beautiful old water oak and wondered if is this common, or that must of been one heck of a storm, or I sure hope that doesn’t happen to my tree.

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Grant-funded Tree Project at Oconee Hill Cemetery

November 15, 2017

Grant-funded Tree Project at Oconee Hill Cemetery

Preservation of the Oconee Hill Cemetery was financed in part with Federal funds from the National Park Service, U.S. Department of Interior, through the historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

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Fireblight

November 14, 2017

Fireblight

An example of the effects of fireblight is shown here. If you have a tree suffering from fireblight give us a call for a complimentary evaluation.

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