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Tree care advice for north Georgia
Practical, plain-spoken guidance on the trees around your home, from a family that works on them every day. Removals, pruning, storm safety, disease, and season-by-season care.
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When a tree has to come down, what to expect from a removal, how insurance and storms fit in, and the signs that mean it is time to call.
The Most Common Tree-Trimming Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them
Trimming is supposed to make a tree healthier and safer. Done wrong, it does the opposite, and the damage often does not show up until years later. These are the mistakes we see most on north Georgia trees.
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What to Do When a Tree Falls on Your Property
A tree on the house or across the driveway is one of the worst things a storm can leave behind. What you do in the first hour matters. Here is a calm order to follow.
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How Homeowners Insurance and Tree Removal Work Together
One of the first questions after a tree comes down is who pays for it. Insurance sometimes helps and sometimes does not, and the difference usually comes down to what the tree hit and why it fell.
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Why Are My Leyland Cypress Trees Turning Brown?
Leyland cypress is the go-to privacy screen across north Georgia, planted in long rows along property lines. When one starts turning brown, the worry is that the rest will follow. Here is what is usually going on.
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Which Trees Are Growing in Your Georgia Yard?
You take better care of a tree when you know what it is. Here is a quick guide to the trees you are most likely to find shading a north Georgia yard, and what each one asks of you.
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How to Know When It Is Time to Take Down a Tree
Taking down a tree is not a decision anyone makes lightly, and it should not be. But there is a point where a tree becomes more risk than benefit. Here is how to tell.
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Three Warning Signs of an Unhealthy Tree
A tree rarely fails without warning; it just gives the warning quietly. Learn to read three of the clearest signs and you can catch a problem while it is still fixable.
Read the article → When Is the Right Time to Trim Oak Trees?
Oaks anchor the north Georgia landscape, and they reward careful timing. Trim one in the wrong season and you invite a disease that can kill it. Here is the schedule to follow.
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Three Sure Signs You Need Emergency Tree Service
Not every tree problem is urgent, but some are, and telling the difference protects your home and your family. Here are three signs a tree needs attention now, not later.
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Can You Spot These Five Common Tree Diseases?
Most tree diseases give themselves away if you know the signs. Here are five you are likely to run into on north Georgia trees, and how to recognize each before it spreads.
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How to Prune Trees the Right Way
Pruning is one of the best things you can do for a tree, and one of the easiest to overdo. Here is the simple thinking that separates good pruning from harmful pruning.
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Why You Need to Remove a Dead Tree
A dead tree can look harmless standing in the corner of the yard. It is not. Left alone, it only becomes more dangerous, more brittle, and more of a magnet for problems.
Read the article → Yellow Leaves in Summer: Why It Happens and What to Do
Yellow leaves belong to fall. When they show up in July, the tree is telling you something is wrong. Here are the usual reasons, and how to figure out which one you have.
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Three Trees You Should Not Plant in Your Yard
The best time to avoid a tree problem is before you plant. A few popular yard trees are far more trouble than their looks suggest. Here are three worth thinking twice about.
Read the article → Three Reasons to Remove a Tree Right Away
Most removals can be scheduled at your convenience. A few cannot. Here are three situations where waiting is the risky choice, and the tree should come down soon.
Read the article → Signs of a Dying Tree to Look For Before You Call
A tree does not go from healthy to dead overnight. It declines, and it shows the decline in ways you can learn to read. Here are the signs worth knowing before you need to call.
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How Can You Tell If a Tree Is Unhealthy?
You do not need to be an arborist to notice when a tree is not thriving. A little attention to how it looks, and to the odd growth that should not be there, tells you a lot.
Read the article → Five Tree-Care Tips for Spring
A little care in spring pays off through the whole growing season. Here are five simple things worth doing for the trees around your north Georgia home as they wake up.
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How to Identify Winter Tree-Bark Damage
Cold is hard on tree bark in ways that are easy to miss until spring. Two kinds of winter damage, sunscald and frost cracks, are worth learning to recognize.
Read the article →Tree Maintenance
Keeping healthy trees healthy: when to prune, how to protect young trees and read the seasons, and how to spot trouble early.
How to Protect Young Trees from Wind Damage
A newly planted tree spends its first few years building the roots that will one day hold it up. Until then, a single afternoon storm can undo it. Here is how to help a young tree stand up to north Georgia wind.
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The Best Time of Year to Trim a Pine Tree
Loblolly and other pines tower over half the yards in north Georgia, and they need a different hand than an oak or a maple. Here is when to trim a pine, and why the timing is not the same.
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Signs That Emergency Tree Trimming May Be in Your Future
Most trimming can wait for the right season. Some of it cannot. Here are the signs that a limb or a tree has become an urgent problem, the kind you address now rather than next month.
Read the article → Staying Safe Around Your Trees After a Storm
The storm passes and the instinct is to get out and start cleaning up. That is exactly when people get hurt. Here is how to stay safe around storm-damaged trees.
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Is There a Right and Wrong Time to Water Trees in Spring?
Water at the right time in spring and your trees head into a Georgia summer strong. Water at the wrong time, or the wrong way, and you can do more harm than good. Here is the difference.
Read the article → Spotting the Signs of Ten Common Tree Diseases
Our warm, humid climate keeps a lot of tree diseases in circulation. Here is a field guide to ten of the more common ones, grouped by type, so you can recognize the signs early.
Read the article → The Symptoms of Annosus Root Rot
Pines are everywhere in north Georgia, and annosus root rot is one of the diseases that most threatens them. It works out of sight, so knowing the symptoms is how you catch it.
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