Landscaping Tree Issues

Trees are an important part of most landscaping designs.  Well placed and properly cared for trees add beauty, shade, and other benefits to your landscaping.  However, trees can pose challenges to your landscape design or develop problems in established landscapes.  Your landscaping professional can help identify tree issues and can handle some tree problems, but for dealing large, diseased, or potentially hazardous trees, you are probably better off getting an Atlanta tree service involved.

A tree service staffed by certified arborists can work with your landscaper to resolve tree issues in your landscaping.  Some common tree issues encountered by Atlanta area homeowners include leaning trees, hazardous trees, diseased trees, and trees that don’t fit into the landscape design because they are too big or in an unfortunate location.

Leaning trees or hazardous trees should be evaluated by a certified arborist.  Very few landscaping professionals have the expertise to properly assess or manage hazardous or leaning trees.  A certified arborist will assess the extent of the hazard and recommend the best course of action from a list of options including bracing the tree, pruning it to reduce or eliminate the hazardous condition, or removal of the tree.

Certified arborists also have the skills necessary to diagnose and tree all types of diseases and insect infestations in trees.  In most cases, your arborist will be able to preserve the tree and return it to a healthy condition.

In some cases, an unfortunate location means that  a tree does not fit into the landscape design or has grown too large for an existing landscape.  An Atlanta tree service can help you and your landscaper sort through your options including relocation, pruning, redesign of the landscaping, or removal of the tree.

Magnolia Trees

With over 80 species of Magnolia trees in the Eastern United States and Southeast Asia, the Southern Magnolia is the one most popular native trees in the Southeast US and is the state tree of Mississippi.

 The Southern Magnolia is known for its beautifully fragrant large white flowers, its cone shape and its dense verdant leaf structure.   Another likable factor of the Magnolia tree is its resistance to pests.  It is not bothered by many insects and proper pruning and maintenance will usually take care of diseased branches, leaf spots, mildews or scabs.

 The Magnolia tree provides a tremendous amount of shade.  Many times these trees are positioned in the landscape design to create a screen or border.  Plan carefully when choosing a space to plant your Magnolia tree. A mature tree can reach up to 60 to 80 feet high with very wide base.  The tree is relatively easy to grow and maintain.  It is drought resistant and as an evergreen, it does not loose its leaves in the winter so it is beautiful year round.

 The Magnolia tree gives hardy shelter to birds and animals during cold winter months.  The seeds and surrounding aril of the magnolia provide a good source of fat and energy for migrating animals.  One unique feature of the Magnolia is that it is pollinated primarily by beetles not by typical birds, bees or butterflies!

 The “Grand Dame of the South” has graced its’ admires with beauty, shade and inspiration for hundreds of years.  Many artists have painted these awesome trees and their beautiful flowers and many poems and stories have been written about their exquisite beauty.