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Plant Health Care Strategies

  • Midwest pin oaks are dense
    February 15, 2024

    Pruning Pin Oaks Like a Boss

    By Tchukki Andersen, BCMA, CTSP

    Back in November 2023, I caught up with Thomas Paine, CTSP, co-owner of Rooted Arbor Care in Warrenton, Missouri, on a job site in Missouri. He was tasked with inspecting a picturesque, healthy pin oak (Quercus palustrus) tree and performing [...]

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  • hundreds of spotted lanternfly adults
    February 15, 2024

    Catching Up With a Fast-Moving Pest: Spotted Lanternfly (SLF)

    By Michael J. Raupp, Ph.D.

    Basic biology and human assists collude for the rapid spread of SLF First detected in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 2014, near the town of Pikeville, this phloem-feeding sap sucker, the Spotted Lanternfly (SLF), now has breeding populations in more than [...]

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  • Applying a basil drench
    February 15, 2024

    Nurturing Urban Trees: A Journey Into Plant Health Care

    By CHRIS DIFFLEY, BCMA, RCA

    Daniel “Danny” Rose, an ISA Certified Arborist with CoolWood Urban Forestry, applies a basil drench. Photos courtesy of Eleven Mass Media. Plant health care (PHC) is a comprehensive program aimed at managing the health, structure and appearance of plants within [...]

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  • Client consultation
    February 1, 2024

    So, You Want to Offer Plant-Health-Care Services?

    By PATRICK PARKER, CTSP

    Congratulations! You are about to enter what I consider the most fascinating sphere of arboriculture. Plant health care (PHC) involves research, investigation, diagnostics and treatments. Providing PHC services allows you to better serve your clients and their trees, developing long-term [...]

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  • Pseudoinonotus dryadaeus, or weeping conk
    February 1, 2024

    Wood-Decay Fungi Part 1: Understanding Morphology

    By CHELSI ABBOTT, MSc

    In this article, we are going to talk about fungal anatomy as well as how and where fungi (fun’ ji) attack trees, and how that in turn affects the trees and us. When we’re looking at a tree that’s infected [...]

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