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September 4, 2020

Why is it Necessary to Trim Trees?

By any chance, if you are trying to avoid or delay trimming of a tree in your backyard, then it is certainly not a good idea. Similar to every other part of your house or gadgets in your house, trees also require maintenance. The minimal expense of trimming a tree must not pinch you if you want to give your tree a longer and healthier life. Here are some of the benefits of tree trimming which clearly define the necessity of the tree trimming:

Balanced Growth: A tree leaning in one direction due to excessive weight in that direction may fall and may cause damage to men and material around. Certainly, you would not like to lose your tree or become a reason for the damage to men or materials. Tree trimming facilitates the balanced growth of the tree. The right balance of the tree will further lead to strong growth and more nutrition for the tree.

The health of the tree: It is best to hire a certified arborist in Mumbai to take care of trimming of your tree because not only he will know to trim the trees in a perfect way for ensuring good health but also while trimming the tree, he can also assess your tree’s health. Even minor ailments cannot be missed by an astute arborist in Mumbai. Thereafter, he can guide you on care measures for your tree so that you can ensure to improve the health of your tree. Additionally, a treatment for the ailment can also be suggested by the expert from the arboriculture consultancy in Mumbai.

No more obstruction: A trimmed tree is never an obstruction for the sight or the passage of the visitors or people living on the premises housing the tree. So, if you want to continue enjoying the view of the hills, sea, cityscape, or any other farther sight, then gear up for the trimming of the tree in your front yard.

Necessary for fruit-bearing trees: Those who have fruit-bearing trees around must get them trimmed at the right time of the year so that the tree can bear the maximum number of healthy fruits. A certified arborist service in Mumbai can help you to know the best time for trimming your fruit-bearing trees along with other care and nourishing measures required to have flourishing produce.

Since tree trimming has so many benefits for the appearance, health, and life of your tree, you must not delay or avoid it.

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July 17, 2020

How to Reduce the Cost of Landscape Maintenance?

Financial highs and lows are often faced by everyone. During financial highs, undoubtedly, you increase your expenditure everywhere. You are likely to increase your expenses on landscape maintenance as well so that you can ensure good health for your loving plants and trees alongside adding aesthetic value to your premises. In the case of financial lows, similar to cutting down other expenses, everyone will look for reducing the cost of landscape maintenance. It is a real challenge to handle such a situation. However, an arboricultural consultancy in India like ours can take up the challenge and accomplish the goal with our creative solutions and out of the box thinking.

Following are some of the basic steps with which we begin while reducing the cost of landscape maintenance:
Conversation with the client: A client looking for low landscape maintenance costs can take an appointment with certified arboriculture specialists like us and have a face to face meeting with us. This helps us to understand their priorities so that we can plan our course of action such that the health and beauty of plants can be maintained without burning a hole in the pocket of the client. Favourite plants can be given preference if desired by the customer.

Reducing labour cost: The labour cost involved in watering the landscape, cleaning it, improving soil quality, health check-up and treatment of trees and maintaining the landscape during various seasons can be reduced by planning urban tree experts visits accordingly or defining the right plan to the customer or installing watering system or similar other equipment if needed.

Use of pest control products: Instead of taking pest control/defoliators control services in the spring season which is supposed to be the peak season of damage from pests like caterpillars and other defoliators, injectable products can be used on your trees in preceding seasons. This will not only reduce the cost for you by spreading the workload of spring season of our tree arborist in Mumbai and other cities but will also save your trees from damage during fall.

Ensuring healthy trees: It is very essential to ensure good health of your tree because healthy trees require less care and you will have to allocate fewer budgets for their maintenance. Plant growth regulators can help your trees to grow healthily with stronger defence compounds and with changes in the physical composition of leaf material such that the new leaves have thicker cuticle. A thick cuticle makes the tree less vulnerable to threats faced by trees. Thus, choosing plant growth regulators may reduce fungicide applications, thereby saving cost. We suggest preventative plant health care measures rather than therapeutic care because therapeutic care is likely to be expensive than the prevent plant health care services.

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July 9, 2020

Are You Sure About Cutting a Tree Near You?

Are you unable to decide whether a tree in your property should be cut or not? It is a common dilemma faced by many of us. One can easily overcome this dilemma either by hiring a certified tree arborist agency in Mumbai to assess it for you or by analyzing the following aspects about the tree under consideration to help you decide on the life of the tree:

Species: The species of the tree should be apt according to the environmental conditions of the place, else, it will not survive for long. If the species of the tree under is a threat to other lives around, then it may not be wise to keep the tree. A tree can pose threat to other lives around if it belongs to an invasive species family or due to its size which may reach more than the level desired by surroundings or due to extensively long roots or if it is a pest prone species or similar other reasons belonging to the nature of that particular species.

Health: When you want to retain a tree on your premises, it is very essential to ensure that it is healthy. A declining tree is likely to fall any day and hence it would be better to remove it as soon as possible. Pests around the tree, thin canopy, falling leaves, sprouting roots, fungus on the bark, split in the trunk, etc. are some of the symptoms of a declining tree. Even after looking at these symptoms, it might be difficult for a layman to diagnose the health of a tree. In such cases, the guidance of tree health care services can prove useful to figure out that whether the tree is unhealthy and irreparable and shall be cut or it can be retained as it can be cured with care and medication.

Leaning trees: A leaning tree is certainly a threat to men and materials in the near vicinity of the tree especially if the tree has developed a sudden bend. This is a clear indication of its weakening roots and thus it needs immediate attention. The arboricultural consultancy in India can do the tree risk assessment for you to give you the perfect solution according to the situation. If the tree’s bend is natural because of the characteristics of the species, then merely adding some support to the tree can save it. However, if the tree is leaning due to damaged roots then tree pruning techniques can be adopted by the arboriculture consultancy in Mumbai.

Excavation activities: Such activities around the tree can cause severe damage to the roots of the tree and whenever such damage is experienced by a tree it gradually declines. The urban tree experts can professionally suggest if such a tree can be saved or needs to be cut.

It is essential to remember that a tree if cut, will be irreplaceable. So, the final decision of cutting a tree must be taken after an astute assessment of the overall condition of the tree. A tree arborist in Mumbai can help to do the needful before and after cutting a tree.

March 14, 2020

The necessity of Tree Survey Reports:

If you are developing a property for commercial use or personal use, a lot of pre-planning is required for various aspects involved in the development of the property. Whether your project is a large-scale or small-scale project, the basic pre-requisites for both of them are common. A tree survey report by a certified arborist service in Mumbai or elsewhere is one such pre-requisite that every developer must undertake on the property to be developed. Not only the properties which are being developed from scratch need the survey but also the alteration/rebuilding projects need the survey. Survey reports on trees in planning and development of a small scale or large-scale housing or commercial projects are very essential. Listed below are some of the reasons which make survey reports by tree planning consultancy services important for any project:

Legal obligation: If there are any protected trees on the property to be developed, the developer is likely to be unaware of it. If he will not take a tree survey by a certified arborist in Mumbai or elsewhere, he will not be able to know about the protected trees. If any damage is caused to a protected tree then it can bring heavy fines or legal punishment to the developer by the planning authorities. Thus, to avoid any legal offense it is wise to take a tree survey by an arborist in Mumbai and be aware of the status of every tree in your property.
Knowledge of trees on the property: A comprehensive tree survey report prepared by an arboriculture consultancy in India tells the developer in detail about the various trees available on his property. This will give him a clear picture of the health and location of every tree which will help him to plan for the wanted and unwanted trees on his property. He may have to take safe tree retention and protection strategies for unhealthy but wanted a tree. Reports for pruning and removal applications will help him figure out which trees can pose a hindrance to his project and need to be removed for planting elsewhere. Timely assessment of trees to be shifted or unhealthy trees to be removed will ensure immediate action by the developer so that later the project can smoothly run without any hindrance due to the trees.
Saves resources: If the developer takes the tree survey in advance, he can furnish his complete application to the planning authorities. Had he not taken the survey, the planning authorities may ask the developer to conduct a survey and furnish the tree survey compliant report to them. The process will then waste developer’s time and money as the developer will have to hold his project in the latter case. So, it is advisable to prepare in advance for every required document and save the project’s cost and time.

The developer can hire a tree company in Mumbai for preparing tree survey report for the property to be developed and later the same arborist in Mumbai can also offer species selection and planting advisory to beautify the property after developing it.

January 20, 2020

Know the Health of the Tree in Your Premises:

All those who have a tree or multiple trees in their compound must be loving the beauty the trees add to the property besides enjoying the fresh air amidst them. To continue admiring the natural beauty and enjoying the benefits of trees in your compound, you should realize the importance of tree care. Unless you take good care of your tree, the health of your tree may get adversely affected. Thus, in addition to nurturing your tree like a living baby, you should know about your plant health by seeking the advice of a professional tree arborist in Mumbai. Tree care experts in Mumbai can visit your premises for doing the health check-up of your tree and guide you accordingly on how to take care of your tree and which safe tree retention and protection strategies can be adopted for ensuring good health of your tree. If you are unsure that whether current health status of your tree requires an appointment with arborist Mumbai for a health check-up or not then inspect following parts of your tree:

Leaves: Leaves are the best and the biggest sign to indicate the health condition of your tree. The leaf color, texture, and quality should be consistent over the years. If the leaves are turning pale or have holes then it can be a sign of damaged tree or bugs in the tree. If leaves of your tree are falling rapidly in the spring or summer season then also your tree may be sick and needs an appointment with certified arboriculture expert.
Fungus: Another clear indication of the rotting of your tree is fungus appearing on outside of your tree.
Bark: It may be difficult for a layman to figure out the health of the tree by looking at the bark of the tree but an expert from plant health care services can easily tell it merely by looking at the bark of the tree. Usually, old barks of old trees peel off and new barks arrive in their place. But instead of it if you find a smooth trunk then it means that your tree may be at a stage that is beyond healing. So, it is advisable to immediately get appointment with arboriculture expert for the sake of your tree. Needle holes in barks are also signs of a bug attack on a dead tree thereby demanding attention.
Branches: As long as branches are bearing leaves, the tree is healthy otherwise it may not be. Do not forget to check all the branches so that you can make out if your tree is partially or wholly unhealthy. When you peel the branch of a tree and see a different color than a lush green, then also it is a matter of worry.
Roots: For a layman, inspecting roots can be a challenge but it is an easy task for an established arboricultural consultancy in India. Small branches sprouting from roots indicate the extent of damage caused to your tree due to chemicals, excess water, construction/excavation projects in your area or other reasons.

If any of the above problems are present in your tree and tree care experts in Mumbai recommend you for removing your tree then do not delay in doing so because a dying tree can become a serious threat. Remember, trees are also living beings and need care. They can shower benefits only if they are healthy. Else, they can become a cause of damage to people or property around. So, maintain the good health of your tree. You can regularly seek tree care solutions from an arboricultural consultancy in Mumbai to ensure a longer and healthy life of your tree.

October 14, 2019

How to Identify a Dying Tree

Arboriculture training in Mumbai

Maintenance of trees is not an easy task to do. Trees, just like humans, needs regular attention and care. If they are sick, there are signs that you can read to identify their sickness. Having Arboriculture training can surely help in reading these signs since planning and development of trees is way too hard for naïve people. Even though you don’t have enough knowledge about the maintenance of trees, you can still try to find out whether the tree is dying by looking out for the following signs:

Observing the trunk:
Normally, when a tree is dying, it develops some vertical cracks in the trunk. You might also notice that the bark is missing from some areas. It could also be presence of dead bark or removed portion of it. There could be presence of Cankers too. These factors are visible from naked eye but they are easier to identify by a certified arborist in India. Other signs of trunk can be seen only if you go close and scratch it. If the inner layer of the bark has turned brown, it means that the tree is already almost dead.
Signs from the branches:
Branches lose hold of the leaves during an incorrect season if the tree is dying. If the leaves are falling in autumn, it should be okay but if they falling out at an abnormal pace and time, then it is not a good sign. Make sure that the measures for tree safety are in place so that there is no external danger for the trees. Other signs that you can look out for are presence of dead leaves on the branches. The joints that connect the tree with the branches might turn weak and are prone to breaking with a little effort. In the growing season like spring, if the leaves are still brown in colour and brittle, then that could also be a sign of a dying tree.
Signs from the roots:
If the roots of the tree are damaged, it will affect the whole tree and it might lean on some specific side. You will also be able to notice some little branches coming out from the base. If you can see slimy roots, then it is also a nearly sure sign of tree decay. In the Arboriculture training programmes, the knowledge about these kinds of signs is also given.

There are other generic things like presence of fungus which can mean that the tree is rotting from the inside. In fact, not just fungus but creatures like bark beetles, ants or other insects generally thrive on dying trees. Any tree specialist in India can read these signs very quickly, just by looking at the tree.

Understanding of these signs can help you to save the tree from dying in some cases or in its timely removal before it causes any damage to the property or people nearby. A Treecotech Arboriculture specialist can help in noticing such signs.

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