Tree Health Care Services
When your pet is sick, you go to the vet. When you're sick, you go to the doctor. Don't your trees deserve the same care? Concerned about the health of your trees, shrubs or landscape? Getting a consultation by one of our ISA Certified Arborists is the first step in learning how to improve your plant health.
We Diagnose and Treat all Tree and Plant Diseases including:
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Oak Wilt
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Twolined Chestnut Borer
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Bur Oak Blight
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Leaf Yellowing/Chlorosis
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Spider Mites/Needle Cast
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Anthracnose
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Scale
Not sure about a disease or pest on the list? Let us worry about making the diagnosis! Our professional consultations allow us to identify any issue with your tree, shrub, garden or lake.
The Value of Professional Tree Care
Proper Tree Care adds substantial amounts of value, comfort, and beauty to your properties. Make sure your green spaces are properly maintained and are as healthy as possible through professional consultations, care, and treatments. Up to 20% of the value of your home can be in its trees and shrubs!
Diseases and insects can wreak havoc on your trees and shrubs, leaving them devastated, struggling to survive or flourish. A professional assessment can help you properly identify necessary care and services for the trees and shrubs in your yard. Our team of expert consultants use multiple approaches to identify and treat a wide variety of tree illnesses that can damage your plant life.
Disease Warning in Minnesota
There are many diseases and pests within Minnesota that can harm your trees. Recently the Kandiyohi area has come under attack from multiple pathogens due to long-term drought stress! Be wary of Emerald Ash Borer; the disease will kill any ash that is not properly treated. Oak Wilt, and Twolined Chestnut Borer are also major threats in the Willmar, Minnesota Area as well!
Emerald Ash Borer
Described by many ecologists as one of the worst natural disasters of the past 500 years, Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) will kill every ash tree it touches, which are half the trees in many American towns, such as Willmar and St. Cloud Minnesota! But it can be stopped with a simple, inexpensive treatment.
Our professionals inject a safe insecticide into the tree’s trunk at the base of the tree. The tree takes the product into its vascular system, circulating the treatment throughout. Within 24 hours, the product has entered every part of the tree.
Your ash tree will be inoculated and 100% resistant to Emerald Ash Borer. Once two years pass, the tree is re-treated. Once the infestation of Ash Borer in the area die or move to new regions, your tree will no longer need to be treated.
Oak Wilt
Caused by a fungus, Oak Wilt is a disease that affects all species of oak trees. A healthy Red Oak can perish from the disease within one month; White Oaks tend to be more resilient, but if left untreated, they will also die.
Oak Wilt spreads from diseased to healthy trees either below ground via connected roots or above ground by insects. Preventative treatment is vital to avoid continual spread of Oak Wilt and can save your tree before it becomes infested. Don't wait until the tree is infected, by then it's too late to stop the disease from spreading and treatments are exponentially more expensive than treating it early.
If treated early, oak trees only need a simple yearly injection to keep fungal infections at bay. However, if a tree has already contracted Oak Wilt, the treatment is much more intensive. Our professionals will excavate the root system of your oak using a high-powered pneumatic spade which exposes the roots without damaging them. A fungicide is then used to treat the tree. It is important to inject the fungicide into the main roots for the treatment to be effective.
Twolined Chestnut Borer
Twolined Chestnut Borer (TLCB) attacks on oak trees have increased across Minnesota, mainly caused by drought and other stresses placed on oaks. TLBC symptoms can easily be confused with Oak Wilt, and trees can be afflicted with both simultaneously.
TLBC attacks oak trees in a similar means as EAB attacks ash trees. Treatment for TLBC is also similar. Our professionals inject a safe insecticide into the tree’s trunk at the base of the tree. The tree takes the product into its vascular system, circulating the treatment throughout the tree. Within 24 hours, the product has entered every part of the tree, if properly watered beforehand.
Oak trees normally have resistance to Twolined Chesnut Borer if not under stress. During droughts it is vital trees continue to receive enough water to stay healthy, as a lack of a water is a primary cause tree disease susceptibility.
