Tall trees with wide leafy crowns provide both beauty and shade to your property, but they can also cause problems for your roof. Here are two things you should check regularly: 1) Is the tree touching any part of the house? If it is, it needs to be cut back to prevent unnecessary wear to…

Trees, especially the ones with big branches that touch your house, are a point of entry for pests who wouldn’t normally have access to your home. Ants, for instance, follow along branches to find food. If they find food on your roof, they will leave trails for other ants to follow. Soon enough, they will…

Nothing complements your landscape better than a perfectly trimmed tree. From an aesthetic viewpoint, trimmed trees provide a gracefully uniform, ornamental and minimalist look. Such decorative and muted style can greatly complement vibrant flowerbeds or a plethora of exotic plants. Sadly, it is still far too common to see untrimmed trees with lots of dead…

All businesses use jargon – a sort of private language that insiders understand. It’s easy to assume the whole world does too – and that often isn’t the case. This struck home when we are asked this question by homeowners wanting to assess the size of the firewood for sale order they need to place.…