What Are Your Arborists Reading? 9 Books on Trees to Branch Out Your Bookshelf! The Tree Book, Dirr & Warren The Tree Book is an anthology of the best plants and trees for North American plantings, complete with glossy full color pages. It reads easily, and is a great reference book. https://store.capitalbooksonk.com/item/dFQpyLS1Od302pV3nDWo_w Songs of Trees [...]
Liriodendron "Tulip Tree" Quick Facts These trees have a mystical quality, and with their showy, complex, and oversize flowers, they often make great additions to fairy gardens! Watering Liriodendron trees have high water needs, which [...]
Enhance root and foliage growth Encouraging healthy growth is what brings us strong, luscious trees! Healthy trees have both a strong root system supporting it, and happy branches and leaves. Bio Stimulants encourage growth by amending the soil with the nutrients trees need to grow from the ground up! Improve soil texture and structure Tough [...]
Best Trees and Shrubs for Adding Color to your Landscape Red Maple These heat-tolerant beauties won’t give you grief in summer, but will absolutely stun bright with fall color come autumn! They’re low-maintenance, and highly suitable for our Sacramento environment. The October Glory and Autumn Blaze are our favorites – when late October comes, the [...]
Camphor Quick Facts A beautiful evergreen, the Camphor tree is a great pick for shade, and its crisp, clean fragrance makes it one of our tree crews’ favorite trees to work with! Watering Tolerates warm weather and [...]
Cork Oak Quick Facts Cork Oaks do wonderfully well in California heat, especially in Sacramento’s mediterranean climate! These can be a great pick for a shade tree investment, and will last for years to come! The outermost layer of the bark is visually [...]
Thousands of Californians are taking up no-lawn landscapes! With increasing heat and stubborn drought conditions, our acres of lush green lawns are becoming a thing of the past - and as Arborists… we’re loving it! Our collective allegiance to lawns as Californians adds very little to our ecosystem, and contributes to a phenomenon called ‘monoculture’, [...]
We’re big animal lovers here at Capital Arborists, and we want to keep your furry family members safe! Do you have a kitty who likes to explore the garden, or a feral cat friend? We’ve put together a short list of plants that are common here in the Sacramento area, and that have aspects of [...]
