Mulch Around Your Tree Trunks? Take Care!

Whether you care for your trees yourself, or have a landscaping service handle things for you, it’s important to take care how you use mulch around your trees’ root flare. The problem is that the roots that are just above ground (the “root ball”) actually...

Help Protect Our Beautiful Oaks

News & Advice From The Leading Thousand Oaks Tree Trimming Company The beautiful oak trees that Thousand Oaks is named after are under attack. The pest causing problems is the Western oak bark beetle (WOBB). It’s a small beetle that burrows through the oak’s bark,...

Do You Know Which “Hardiness Zone” We’re In?

Do you know what a Hardiness Zone is? It’s a way that the geography of the United States and Canada has been divided up into 11 zones to reflect differences in temperature. Each zone has a 10-degree difference in annual minimum temperatures. For example, the minimum...

Tree Pruning Tips For Spring

News & Advice From The Leading Thousand Oaks Tree Trimming Company Can you believe it – we’re barely a month away from spring! That means that now is the time for some routine tree pruning to make your trees healthier than ever. Fall and winter,...

Questions To Ask Before You Hire

Tree trimming requires careful attention to safety precautions. As licensed arborists, we always take care to adhere to guidelines of the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA). According to the ISA, you should ask about safety before hiring a tree care worker....

Winterizing Your Fruit Trees

How To Make Sure Your Fruit Trees Stay Healthy Over The Winter Okay, I know our friends back east would laugh at our brutal Southern California winter. But the fact is that if it gets down to 32 degrees — which it usually does several nights during December and...