Trees are beautiful, majestic, living beings. There can be endless fascination regarding them. They can be mysterious, enduring, strong, and inspiring. This might be surprising, but we still don’t know everything about them and the knowledge of how we understand them is a continuous process. However, there is one surefire thing we definitely do know about trees and that is they need regular maintenance. This is particularly true in urban environments. Our team here at Five Star Tree Services is going to answer a question commonly asked by tree owners: how frequently do you need arborists to inspect your trees?
To put it simply, there is no one answer to this because every tree is different and every circumstance is also different. This means that without a specific assessment of each individual tree, there isn’t a direct answer. The needs of each tree are different. For instance, there are certain trees that require seasonal care, while there are others that don’t need much attention, or perhaps more attention. Regardless, routine regular maintenance is always advisable and the key to a healthy and happy tree. There are two main groups of tree maintenance: Reactive and preventative tree care.
Reactive Tree Care
This particular type of care occurs when you are reacting to something that is seriously wrong with a tree. Most often, this has to happen when regular maintenance has not been performed on a tree that is well established in its maturity. This is a more invasive tree care technique. Just like us, trees can be stubborn in their age, which makes correcting issues like weak main unions, cracked limbs, included bark, heavy girdling roots, or largely overgrown limbs relatively difficult to fix. When needing to attend to these developed problems, utilizing reactive tree care normally ends with needing to remove large sections of a tree. Unfortunately, in many cases, this also means that the entire tree will need to be removed.
Preventative Tree Care
This type of tree care is favourable because it means that trees are being cared for regularly and problems can be spotted early on before they truly become an issue. This includes routine, regular maintenance that, when problems arise, they can be dealt with that involves minimal invasive cutting and still promotes a happy, long, and healthy tree. This is why regular tree maintenance is so important to implement this kind of stuff in the early stages of a tree’s life. Things like problematic growth can be spotted by an arborist and corrected before bigger problems develop. These corrections will help the tree grow into a well-balanced, established canopy. It is more cost effective to have this routine preventative tree maintenance as opposed to having to cut large sections of your tree or needing to remove it entirely.
How Five Star Tree Services Can Help
We highly recommend routine tree maintenance on all your trees in order to prevent major issues. Our skilled team here at Five Star Tree Services can come to your home and assess each of your trees and provide a Toronto Tree Care maintenance plan to help them thrive. Give us a call today at (416) 990-3355 to book our team to come for a visit!