Caring for Your Trees

Frequent and properly performed tree care is vitally important if you want to have large, healthy trees. Most tree care is inexpensive and easy to perform. Activities such as pruning, mulching, watering, and fertilization have the maximum impact when the trees are young. This page is designed to empower tree owners to be educated consumers and practitioners of tree care.

Resources

Best Management Practices for Tree Care

• Tree Care Best Management Practices

Tree Health

• Arborists Maintain Tree Health

Tree Planting

• How to Select a Tree
• How to Plant a Tree
• Tree Planting Near Utility Lines
• Why you should plant trees in square holes

Soils

• How Compaction Affects Tree Roots
• Drought Management
• Soil Sampling and Analysis for Urban Trees
• Composting
• Vertical Mulching

Pruning

• Pruning Crape Myrtles
• Pruning Shade Trees

Insects/Pathogens

• Oak Leaf Blister
• Mistletoe
• Black Dotted Brown Moth