🌳 Plant Health Care (PHC) for Your Urban Forest
Trees are living, breathing structures that require essential care to survive and thrive. At Hartland Tree Service, we offer expert Plant Health Care to ensure your yard trees remain healthy, vigorous, and safe.
🦉 Why Your Yard Trees Need Our Help
Unlike trees in a natural forest setting, your urban and yard trees live in a domesticated environment that lacks the ecological benefits of a natural setting. This makes them vulnerable to several stressors:
Soil Structure & Compaction
- Soil Structure: The natural soil mix is often removed or drastically altered during construction, disrupting natural water movement and impacting the health and anchorage of root systems.
- Soil Compaction: Tree roots need air. Compaction from human activity over time can diminish pore space, leading to wilting, decline in health and vigor, and even death.
Lack of Essential Nutrients (Soil pH & Organic Matter)
- Soil pH: The pH level of the soil determines which nutrients are available to the plant. Even if a nutrient is present, it may not be accessible to the tree if the soil pH is too high.
- Organic Matter: In a balanced forest, falling leaves naturally recycle nitrogen and other essential components. These requirements are often quite lacking in a domestic yard setting.
Trees, like humans, are unable at times to care for themselves. Our urban forest needs our help if it is to thrive.
🌱 Our Professional PHC Services
We provide tailored treatments and care plans based on the specific needs of your plants, moving beyond just simple removal and trimming.
| PHC Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Deep Root Fertilization | Injecting specialized, slow-release nutrient cocktails directly into the root zone to combat deficiency and compaction. |
| Insect/Pest Control | Systemic trunk injections or soil drenches for serious pests like Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) and Japanese Beetle. |
| Disease Management | Fungicide treatments and root barrier creation to protect high-value trees from diseases like Oak Wilt and Dutch Elm Disease. |
| Vertical Mulching | A technique to aerate compacted soil and improve drainage while introducing organic material around the root system. |