Don’t blame the trees, they’re as unhappy about it as you are. Every season brings different surges of insect populations. This year we are noticing an explosion in scale and aphid populations on our silver maple trees. If you haven’t noticed the problem, just look at the line ups to the car washes around town! […]
I was contacted by email by a prospective client who wanted to buy some mulch. This happens all the time but this one was different. What tipped me off was the request to ship mulch to Haiti! I followed this one down the rabbit hole and couldn’t shake the scammers. Turns out that scammers themselves […]
Over the past decade and more, our community has been slowly building an understanding and respect for urban trees and all the services they provide to us. We’ve developed policies, practices and a bylaw that protect urban trees but apparently all this progress was largely ignored at a City Council meeting this past week. The […]
Emerald Ash Borer is the most damaging pest introduced to our forests since Dutch Elm Disease in the 60’s and 70’s. It’s a beetle that hitchhiked here from Asia and has set to devouring ash trees since it was first found in Windsor and Detroit in 2002. It feeds on the inner bark of all […]