benefits of deadwooding a tree in st. louis

The Benefits of Deadwooding for Tree Health and Safety

The Importance of Deadwooding for Healthy and Safe Trees Deadwooding plays a crucial role in ensuring the vitality, safety, and visual appeal of your trees. At Jackson Tree Service, we understand the significance of this process. In this post, we’ll delve into the numerous benefits and how it positively impacts tree health. If you’re concerned…

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Common Leaf Chewing Pests In St. Louis

Here at Jackson Tree Service, we primarily remove and treat large trees in St. Louis. However, we can also treat smaller trees and shrubs on your property. Large trees are usually treated with an injection into the trunk of the tree while smaller trees and shrubs are treated with a foliar spray treatment. Foliar spray…

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Diplodia Tip Blight Symptoms & Treatment

Diplodia tip blight is a fungal disease common in stressed pine trees, particularly pines with needles in bunches of 2. In a forest environment, this disease is not common. In urban environments, trees are more susceptible due to multiple causes of stress. Tip blight can kill all current year shoots, and multiple years of infection…

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Plant Health Care Cost Analysis

What Is Plant Health Care? Plant health care (PHC) is a proactive approach to maintaining the health of the trees, shrubs, and other plants located throughout your St. Louis landscape. PHC is a combination of cultural practices, pest and disease management, and nutrient management to promote the overall health and vigor of the plants. We…

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A Spring Guide For Trees

What Happens To Trees In The Spring? Spring is a time of new beginnings, and for trees, it is a time of renewal and growth. After a long period of dormancy during the winter months, trees burst back to life in the spring, producing new leaves, flowers, and seeds. One of the most noticeable changes…

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A Beginner’s Guide To Needle Cast Disease

Have you noticed needles on your spruce tree turning brown and falling off? Your tree may have needle cast, a disease caused by the rhizosphaera kalkhoffii fungus. What Is Needle Cast Disease? Needle cast disease will cause old needles to turn brown and fall off, creating a thinned canopy that makes for an ugly tree.…

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Stop Topping Trees – Tree Topping vs Crown Reduction

Customers often ask, what are safer trimming methods that can be used? In the following paragraphs, we will explain the differences between tree topping and crown reduction as well as their benefits and negative impacts they have. What is tree topping? Tree topping is the practice of cutting off the top of a tree’s trunk…

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What Is Apple Scab And How Do You Treat It?

Are you noticing brown spots on the leaves or fruit of your apple or crabapple tree? If you are, it is likely apple scab which is a disease caused by a fungus called Venturia inaequalis. Apple scab will ruin the aesthetic value of the tree, and ruin any fruit it produces, the two best things…

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