Expert Sacramento Arborist Advice: Caring for Native Oaks
Molly DuPont2025-11-05T15:56:29+00:00To plant or care for a Native Oak is to leave a legacy that will outlive the next century or perhaps a few centuries.
How To Hire An Arborist
Molly DuPont2025-11-05T15:19:26+00:00If you’re looking for a Certified Arborist to help care for your trees, you’ve already figured out that knowledge and experience provide the best care! We believe a relationship between you, your arborist, and your trees is the cornerstone of your property’s green health. Here are our insider tips for hiring the right ISA Certified [...]
Caring For Mature Trees
Molly DuPont2025-11-05T18:28:34+00:00Well-established trees are often a low-maintenance joy, offering shady afternoons and decades of beauty. Caring for your mature and established trees will give them a future of health and longevity; a little care goes a long way! Here are our six go-to tips for giving your shady friends the best care: Regularly water your trees [...]
9 Books on Trees to Branch Out Your Bookshelf!
Molly DuPont2024-10-29T16:31:49+00:00What 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 [...]
Plant Profile – Liriodenrdon “Tulip Tree”
Molly DuPont2025-11-04T20:45:43+00:00Liriodendron "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, [...]
4 Myths About Arborists – Debunked!
Molly DuPont2025-11-05T18:15:00+00:00Myth 1 - We Love Removing Trees Nope! While we remove trees that are a hazard, dead, or dying, we’d prefer to see your trees healthy and thriving and will never suggest you remove a tree unnecessarily. Our plant health care team can mitigate disease, nutritional issues, and tree pests, and our qualified arborists can [...]
Soil Matters! Benefits of Organic Bio Stimulant Fertilizations
Molly DuPont2025-11-05T15:26:04+00:00Enhance 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 [...]
10 Best Trees & Shrubs To Add Color To Your Landscape
Molly DuPont2025-11-05T19:35:06+00:00Best 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 [...]
Plant Profile – Cork Oak
Molly DuPont2022-10-12T19:33:17+00:00Cork 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 [...]
Leave the Lawn! Plant Native & Water-Wise!
Molly DuPont2025-11-05T19:42:41+00:00Thousands 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’, [...]
