Trees and Shrubs - The Backbone of Your Home's Landscape

Losing a tree in your home's landscape can have a devastating impact on the look and curb appeal of your property. Learn how to protect your trees and shrubs here.

Tree and Shrub Care

Maintaining healthy trees and shrubs goes a long way to keeping your property’s landscape beautiful.  Healthy trees and shrubs begin with healthy soils and reduced risks to pests and disease. If you care about the health of your home’s landscape you will certainly enjoy our planet friendly approach.  Read on to learn more.

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Our most popular services for healthy trees and shrubs

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FERTILIZATION

Nutrition and Fertilization

Tree & Shrub Nutrition with Slow Release Nitrogen for Extended Feeding

Our tree and shrub nutrition programs contains a unique blend of nutrients, seaweed extract, humic acid, surfactants, and humectants designed to accelerate root development and to reduce water stress for mature trees and shrubs.  It focuses on a well balanced deep-root delivery of slow release supplements for the trees and shrubs in your landscape.  Our nutrition programs are customized to fit any size landscape or combination of trees and shrubs.

  • Supplies organic matter and aids in the proliferation of soil microorganisms
  • Reduces water run-off from repellent, dry soil surfaces
  • Can be used throughout the entire growing season
  • Consistent, extended feeding
  • Improve stress tolerance
  • Improves vigor, especially in urban trees
  • Promotes both root and shoot growth

Autumn Care Program

Our Autumn Care program is applied during fall and winter to help trees, shrubs, ornamentals get ready for the winter stress as well as improve rooting and boost carbohydrate storage to begin the coming growing season with vigor.

These programs start at $225

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ORNAMENTAL CARE

Ornamental Tree and Shrub Care Program
  • Our products for this program are OMRI Listed (Organic Materials Review Institute) ““ for organic production.
  • The purpose of this program is to suppress damaging insects, mites and fungus in ornamental trees and shrubs.
  • This program consists of five (5) inspections AND treatments of the landscape’s ornamental plants and trees under 15 feet in height.
  • The program begins in March and ends in October.
  • The inspections and treatments will be scheduled according to the weather conditions.
  • This program will also provide pest and disease management recommendations on plants above 15 feet in height which are NOT included within this service.

Pricing for this program begins at $185 per treatment.

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PESTS & DISEASE

Pest and Disease Management

Our pest pest and disease management program for your trees and shrubs requires an onsite health assessment to diagnose the specific issues your trees and shrubs may be facing.  Once the onsite assessment has been completed we will provide you with our written suggested treatment protocol to solve the identified issues.

The onsite assessment and report starts at $95.  This fee is deducted from any treatment price.

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DROUGHT AND STRESS

Drought and Stress Management

Our drought and stress management program for your trees and shrubs is two fold. It focuses on strengthening the soils ability to hold and deliver water and your trees ability to absorb the available water.

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Keep your trees and shrubs healthy

Call us at 800-990-0335 if you live in Southern Maryland ( Anne Arundel, St. Mary’s, Calvert or Charles County) or Northern Virginia ( Alexandria, Arlington, Annandale, McLean and more ).

Scroll through articles from our resource center below to learn more about problems that affect your trees and shrubs.

Fungus Gnat in Southern Maryland

Fungus Gnat in Southern Maryland

Sudden Oak Death in Southern Maryland

Sudden Oak Death in Southern Maryland

Fire Blight in Southern Maryland

Fire Blight in Southern Maryland

Botryosphaeria Canker in Southern Maryland

Botryosphaeria Canker in Southern Maryland

Apple Scab in Southern Maryland

Apple Scab in Southern Maryland

Scale Insects in Southern Maryland

Scale Insects in Southern Maryland

Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in Southern Maryland

Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in Southern Maryland

Emerald Ash Borer in Southern Maryland

Emerald Ash Borer in Southern Maryland

Southern Pine Bark Beetle in Southern Maryland

Southern Pine Bark Beetle in Southern Maryland

Spotted Lanternfly in Southern Maryland

Spotted Lanternfly in Southern Maryland

Bacterial Leaf Scorch in Southern Maryland

Bacterial Leaf Scorch in Southern Maryland

Bagworms in Southern Maryland

Bagworms in Southern Maryland

Japanese Beetle in Southern Maryland

Japanese Beetle in Southern Maryland

Diplodia Tip Blight in Southern Maryland

Diplodia Tip Blight in Southern Maryland

Oak Wilt in Southern Maryland

Oak Wilt in Southern Maryland

Conifer Bark Beetles in Southern Maryland

Conifer Bark Beetles in Southern Maryland

Winter Moth in Southern Maryland

Winter Moth in Southern Maryland

Thrips in Southern Maryland

Thrips in Southern Maryland

Phytophthora in Southern Maryland

Phytophthora in Southern Maryland

Leaf Chewing Caterpillars in Southern Maryland

Leaf Chewing Caterpillars in Southern Maryland

Horned Oak Gall Wasp in Southern Maryland

Horned Oak Gall Wasp in Southern Maryland

Gypsy Moth in Southern Maryland

Gypsy Moth in Southern Maryland

Conifer Spider Mites in Southern Maryland

Conifer Spider Mites in Southern Maryland

Bur Oak Blight in Southern Maryland

Bur Oak Blight in Southern Maryland

Bronze Birch Borer in Southern Maryland

Bronze Birch Borer in Southern Maryland

Beech Leaf Disease in Southern Maryland

Beech Leaf Disease in Southern Maryland

Aphids in Southern Maryland

Aphids in Southern Maryland

Anthracnose Leaf Blight in Southern Maryland

Anthracnose Leaf Blight in Southern Maryland

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