Disease diagnosis and consultation:
Being the first licensed and certified arborist in WNY in 1973 and maintaining high standards of expertise in proper disease and insect control, we can solve most of your tree care problems. We work directly with Cornell University on diseases and insect problems and their control. We will provide you with an analysis, control and costing of your insect or disease problems. One of the most important and highly sophisticated aspects of controlling any tree problem is proper diagnosis. Many tree companies try to guess at what problem a tree or shrub might have, but only through proper procedures and scientific research can an accurate determination be made and the right treatment suggested.

Pruning:
Pruning involves many different objectives. Removing deadwood from trees is probably the most obvious pruning technique. Deadwood is an entry port into the tree for viral, fungal, bacterial pathogens, borers, carpenter ants, and termites. There is also the physical danger of large deadwood falling on people or property. Another aspect of pruning is hazardous limb removal. Sometimes limbs can grow very fast and not have enough support strength to withstand high winds, snow or ice. If these limbs are over power lines or roofs they can break and cause damage.

Trees are sometimes cut back in height to prevent breakage, especially with certain species that have a tendency to grow quickly with not enough strength to weight ratio to support themselves. Thinning is done to open the interior of the tree to promote air passage so diseases cannot grow. Diseases grow much better in moist conditions. Thinning is also done to keep wind resistance down to prevent trees from blowing over.

Shaping trees is purely for aesthical reasons. Trees sometimes grow in strange shapes and need to be brought back to conform to other plants in the landscape.

Trees can sometimes be raised up called crown raising to elevate the height of low branches over buildings, driveways, or just for head clearance when mowing the lawn.

Bracing and Cabling:
Supplying artificial support to structurally weak or injured trees is important. This is accomplished by either cabling or bolting two weak branches or “V” crotches together to prevent damage from breaking to homes or property and to the tree itself. It is similar to an insurance policy; there may not be an ice storm or a gale wind, but if so, the protection is there.

Fertilization:
We can fertilize your smallest shrubs to your largest trees. This is done to strengthen, weakened or undernourished trees and shrubs. It also helps to maintain and stimulate new growth and insure vigor and resistance to disease in healthy trees and shrubs. We use a liquid injection that is chelated to break down under bacterial soil action and lasts for 2 years.

Removals:
We can and do handle with complete safety the largest to the smallest tree takedowns and removals. We use modern equipment such as aerial lift trucks (buckets) and cranes when necessary.

Stump Removal:
With our stump grinder we can remove unwanted stumps from front or back yard to a maximum depth or 18 inches below grade, and either clean up mulch and top soil and seed holes, or leave mulch for gardens or around shrubs.

Our crews are trained in safety and advanced techniques for the safe, professional removal and cleanup of dead or unwanted trees and shrubs.

Tree and Shrub Spraying:
Shrubs and trees need protection from diseases and insect pests to remain healthy. A slight defoliation or leaf drop due to fungi, bacteria or insects can weaken a shrub or tree substantially. Let us use protectants when necessary rather than eradicants.

• Dormant Sprays
  Dormant sprays are applied to trees and shrubs to control mites and insects such as scales, mealy bugs, aphids and certain caterpillars early in the spring when trees are dormant (before leaves). They are applied to the trunk, stems and branches. A dormant oil spray works by covering and smothering eggs or young mites before they mature and become a problem.
  
  


• Foliar Sprays
  Foliar sprays are applied when trees are in leaf, and are meant to control numerous leaf feeding insects such as inch worms, birch leaf miners, spruce gall aphids, and many types of scale mites and aphids, all of which either chew on, suck or mine leaves. These destroy the efficiency of the tree causing dieback off branches and in many cases, death of the entire tree.
  
• Special Sprays
  These are sprays meant to control one particular insect or disease problem such as borers, elm bark beetles, anthracnose of maples and sycamores, and numerous individual problems.
  
  
• Spray Summary
  All materials used are registered and licensed by the EPA. Our pesticide applicators and assistants are highly trained professionals controlled through rigid exams and licensed programs by the Department of Environmental Conservation of New York State.


• Micro Injections:
  Micro injections are pressurized capsules that place pesticides, fungicides or fertilizer directly into the vascular system of the tree. They are used when hydraulic spray apparatus cannot be used, such as close proximity to other buildings or a neighbor that might have a sensitive allergic reaction to certain pesticides or fungicides. The contents of each capsule are injected directly into the tree. Also with certain disease and insect pests, injections can do a much better job.

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