Tree Care

Planting and choosing salt tolerant trees and shrubs species along roads and driveways requires an additional consideration due to potential salt damages and injuries that will occurring during their lifetime. Trees affected by salt will have stunned appearance and reduce growth as well as many will succumb due to higher doze of salt in soil […]

Prairie fires play an important role in maintaining healthy prairie ecosystems. Periodic fire helps rejuvenate native grass, tree and shrub vegetation by removing accumulated plant litter and accelerating the natural decomposition process. Many native prairie grasses, forbs, and shrubs are well adapted to fire and often respond with vigorous growth following a burn. Fire also

People enjoy a wide range of outdoor activities, from recreation, camping, and hiking to simply taking in the beauty of nature in public spaces, campgrounds, and parks. Forests and trees are essential to our natural world, providing significant environmental, social, and economic benefits. However, trees can also present risks, particularly when they develop structural weaknesses

Let’s face it from tree’s perspective; pruning a healthy tree is always stressful; leaving tree with scars, reducing food factory production, and creating a hormonal imbalance. Changing and reducing a tree’s internal hormonal flows ( growth hormones are auxin\’s in apical buds and cytokinin in root buds) will create “wreck” to its hormonal balances. As

The value of field windbreaks, either planted or natural occurring, has been known for many decades in Canadian Prairie Provinces. Since the 1930s, farmers and ranchers have planted trees to reduce the negative effect of the wind to their homes, soil, crops, livestock, and their water and land infrastructure. Impact and consequences of field windbreak

Throughout my career, I have been asked this question every time when I talk or perform pruning work for a client. To answers this question, I ask a client following: How much pruning work do you do? Few hours, days, or full-time job? How much money you are willing to spend on pruning tools? What

Simply put, Prairie and Trees don\’t get together well. Dry southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba prairies are very challenging for tree and shrubs establishment. Most of the trees and shrubs you see around farmyards, fields, parks and RV campgrounds were planted in the last 120 years. Prior European settlement prairie has very few trees and

Springtime needle discoloration on previously healthy evergreens is often a result of some form of winter injury and damages to evergreen trees. There are many reasons why evergreen trees and shrubs turn brown and change colour or loose needles. Many environmental conditions such as winter desiccation, salt, frost, drought, flood, soil deficiency and many others