Plant Healthcare

Keeping It Green

Trees, shrubs, and perennial plantings are an important part of your landscape. They offer shade, color, and privacy, define the different areas your property, and soften the edges of structures and hardscape. Proper care of these valuable “green assets“ is necessary to ensure their continued growth, health, and well-being. You’ve invested in your property and landscape and Plant Health Care will help protect that investment. We offer different programs based on the number and variety of plants on your site.

IPM (Integrated Pest Management)

Targeted Treatment Programs

Often a property will have only a few key plants that the owner is concerned about or that are highly susceptible to pests, diseases, etc. A few examples are: Hemlocks (scale, adelgids, mites), Crabapples (rust, scab), Dogwood (anthracnose, powdery mildew) and Birch (borer, leaf miner)In this case we can prescribe a treatment program to address just the area of concern, typically 2-4 treatments specifically timed for the best control of the problem.

Soil Amendment Programs

The health of your plants depends on the health of your soil. Think of how our nearby farmers work the soil in their fields each spring to ensure it is properly balanced for their crops. The same applies to your landscape plants. If there is a nutrient imbalance in your soil your plants may not be getting what they need to thrive. We can test your soil to determine if amendments like fertilizers, biostimulants, or microbial inoculants are needed or would be beneficial, then add those materials through various methods.

Tick Control Programs

Treatments to protect your family and pets from these disease carrying pests. Common places to come across ticks are in wooded areas, underbrush, and tall, unmaintained grass where they may have dropped off of deer after feeding. They can also be found closer to home in foundation plantings, ground cover, rock walls, and wood piles where they were brought in by squirrels or chipmunks. Regular treatments of these areas with materials throughout the year are effective at reducing the likelihood of contact with ticks. We can also help reduce the “tick habitat“ on your site by eliminating leaf litter and keeping the lower limbs of your trees and shrubs pruned away from the ground.

Party Spraying

If you are having an outdoor event such as a wedding or graduation party we can treat several days prior to reduce the populations of nuisance pests like mosquitoes and gnats. Organic and low odor materials are available to protect your guests.