A regular pruning program is essential for keeping your trees safe, beautiful and healthy. The periodic removal of portions of the tree is done to enhance the appearance and value of landscaping.

Additional reasons to maintain a regular pruning program:

1. The health of ornamental and shade trees depends on pruning.
2. Training the growth pattern of young trees.
3. Removal of dead, weak, storm damaged, crossing or diseased branches.
4. Reduces the risk of storm damage (ice, snow, wind).
5. Clear from buildings, homes, wires, streets, and drives.

 
Thorough cleanup is a focus to ensure the property gets left the same way we entered it if not cleaner. We take pride in a job followed through from start to finish.

Shrubs are a vital component in the landscape picture, and often overlooked in terms of pruning. The shearing of shrubs in the landscape is not the healthiest practice for shrubs. Shearing gives a formal or groomed look but concentrates the foliage on the perimeter or the outside of the plant. Over time holes can begin to appear in the perimeter causing an unsightly appearance. A more recommended and healthier approach which will prolong the life of your shrubs is to remove undesirable branches such as dead wood, diseased wood, insect ridden branches and in some cases old growth to promote new shrubs.

Our urban soils look much different than that of the forest floor. The forest floor should be our model when approaching tree vigor in relation to soils. Forest soils are rich in and well aerated, mulched, moist, cool and loaded with beneficial organisms. That is a tough one to reproduce in our compacted, nutrient lacking clay soils in the Midwest. The important soil conditioning micro organisms can not survive in our conditions.

What we do?
How do we take a tree or a shrub that is growing in a tough environment (bad soil) and get it to flourish and add many years of enjoyment to our lives?

Fertilization and Aeration comes first.

Fertilization can be described as the addition of necessary nutrients and elements to the soil structure to improve plant health and appearance. Our specialty mixes will produce excellent root growth and mass along with improvement in color, leaf size, and overall health. You can often tell the condition of the roots by looking at the crown on top of a tree or shrub.

Our timely fertilizer and aeration applications in the Spring and Fall are designed to enhance the plants natural processes of development at the correct time of the year.

Although insect and disease control is extremely important, plant health is the best way to prevent infestation. A healthy plant is a strong plant, able to defend against external factors. Eden Tree Pro's main focus is preventative care.

However, previously weakened trees, trees not planted in the correct location and site conditions are all factors that can make a tree defenseless against insects and diseases. In these cases our arborists check the health of the tree and the level of infestation and prescribe the treatment(s) that will not only treat and cure the problem but be sensitive to our environment at the same time. Depending on the situation natural pest controls, injections, and dormant oils are just a few we use. Combine those with fertilization and we have your tree/shrub on the road to recovery.

A healthy tree will give you a life time of enjoyment!

Cabling and bracing can be an excellent way to extend the life of a tree. Many trees have structural defects but do not need to be removed. Our arborists are trained to identify problems and defects.

Cabling is the installation of cables on alternative products between major structural limbs within a tree. This additional support will not only strengthen a tree but prevent or reduce storm damage from wind, snow, and ice loads.

Bracing is usually the installation of a steel rod to protect a weak or split crotch. This rod or brace is aided by cables installed in the canopy.

In many cases trees are beyond treatment and have become a hazard to people and properties. Our removal technicians have the proper equipment and techniques to safely remove trees in the worst of locations. Safety is the key! We are here to eliminate your safety and liability concerns. Our goal in all our tree services is to minimally impact the landscape and provide thorough clean up of all debris.

Stump grinding is the process of removing the stump below soil level.

• It is much less expensive than stump removal processes
• It eliminates the disturbance of the surrounding lawn area
• The mulch created by the grinding processes can even be recycled in your flower beds
• No -root to haul away
• Re-landscape with ease

1. Grind, clean, and grind below soil level 6-12" and fill hole with debis and haul excess.
2. Grind, complete clean, haul and soil fill

   Grind below soil level 6-12", clean and haul all debris and fill with top soil preparing for seed, sod, or plant material.

Why remove the tree and then leave an unsightly stump?

How roots problems develop

• Too much or too little moisture
• Poor soil drainage
• PH to high or low
• Planting improperly - too high or too low
• De icing salts
• Herbicide damage - weed control
• Construction on root damage
• Adding soil to roots
• Compaction (vehicles or pedestrians)

Warning signs of root problems

• Lack of root flare
• Fungal growths on roots or trunk
• Yellow, dwarf or light green foliage
• A heavy crop of berries, cones, or acorns
• Stunted twig growth

Most of a trees roots grow in the top 12" of soil. The fine roots are in the top 3-5" of soil.

Helps provide a better growing environment.

• Protects the soil from erosion
• Reduces compaction from the impact of heavy rains
• Conserves moisture, reducing the need for frequent waterings
• Maintains a more even soil temperature
• Prevents weed growth

• Closely represents how trees grow in nature
• Conserves moisture around the trees root zone
• Keeps mower and trimmers from damaging the trees

Dyed Color and Natural Mulch Available
Plus the Convenience of Deliver!

"Bug off" perimeter treatments are applied monthly from April through September.

"Bug off" is applied to the entire perimeter or the home foundation which keeps spiders, roaches and many other pests from entering your house and making themselves "at home." See map of home and bug off treatment area.

This application includes and benefits the shrubs and plant material that may be within the 5 to 6' perimeter as well.