Creating A Lush and Welcoming Landscape

If your office buildings are on a large piece of land with plenty of wide-open green space, you may want to plant some trees. Trees add beauty, protect wildlife, and help the environment. They may even add to the value of your property once the trees are mature. Trees usually need more intensive care when they're young, so you may want to work with a tree maintenance service to keep your young trees healthy and growing properly. Here are some tree care services you might need.

1. Pruning To Shape The Trees

When trees are planted in open spaces, you don't have to worry about trimming to keep branches away from power lines or roofs. However, pruning is important for shaping the trees for proper growth and maximum beauty.

Pruning may start as soon as the trees are established and be done every year or so. The frequency of pruning diminishes as the trees grow, and by the time the trees are mature, they may only need to be trimmed to remove damaged or sick branches.

2. Watering Trees On Schedule

Once the trees are planted, they'll need to have fertilizer applied occasionally and be watered regularly so the trees stay healthy. When the trees are planted, the tree service may create a mulch ring around the tree to hold in water.

Installing an irrigation system would be ideal, but if you don't want to do that, a tree maintenance company may deliver water by a truck and hose as long as the truck can get close enough to the trees. The trees will need to be watered less often as they grow, and when the trees are several years old, their roots should be deep enough to tap into groundwater.

3. Staking Trees When Storm-Damaged

Young trees are vulnerable in storms because their roots aren't very deep yet. You'll want to check your trees after a storm so the tree maintenance service can straighten trees moved by the wind and stake them to encourage straight growth. The stakes or wires can be removed once the roots are strong again. This keeps a row of trees in perfect alignment for the most attractive look.

4. Treating Sick Trees

Some new trees aren't as healthy as others and they may display this with stunted growth. A tree maintenance service can watch over the health of your new trees and treat them when needed. With this maintenance, all the trees grow at the same rate and one sick tree doesn't spread diseases to the other trees.

For more information, contact a business near you that provides tree maintenance services.