| Our goal is to provide timely information
that applies to the health, beauty and safety of your
trees and shrubs.
In This Issue
President's Message
Winter Work at Reduced Rates
The Save On Ideal Off-Season Projects
- Pruning
- Thinning
- Removal of less desirable trees
- Culling underbrush
- Produce up to 1½ cords of firewood
After our licensed arborist assesses your
trees in the fall while foliage is visible and
root systems can be inspected you will be prepared to:
- Recognize if a tree has become hazardous so that
you take corrective action
- Foster the development of stately, mature and structurally
sound trees
- Create on ideal environment for ferns, wild flowers,
grasses and other native plants
- Add depth and attractively frame your home or other
structure
- Make wooded areas less hospitable for ticks
Visit Our Website to Read “Secrets of the Woods”:
Click
here to read the article
Visit Our New Website
After consulting with customers, partners and employees,
we are
excited to present you with our new website. Highlights
include:
- Online service descriptions and seasonal tips to
help you care for your trees
- Testimonials, success stories, photographs and
descriptions of our commercial and residential
projects
- Our partnership program enables us to refer complimentary
services to our customers
- Interesting articles about topics requested by
our customers
- FAQs for up-to-date answers to frequently asked
questions
- Online tools enable customers to perform their
own preliminary analysis prior to contacting
an arborist to discuss their trees, tree structure
issues, and diseases or insect problems
- Request a quote or complimentary consultation
In the near future we’ll have games, contests and bulletin
boards.
Visit Total Tree Care’s
Booth at the Southington Apple Harvest Festival
Total Tree Care will be participating in the Southington
Apple Harvest Festival during two
consecutive weekends beginning Friday, September 28th.
Please stop by our booth to meet our arborists, to
see a demonstration of our Resistograph hazard tree
analysis system and to discuss any issues associated
with your trees. April 22 our partners will tour our
facilities and learn about our Partnership Program.
Combating The Bronze
Birch Borer
Bronze birch borers are known for the wood-boring habits
of the larvae that infest birch
and poplar trees.
The adult is a slender, flattened .25 - 1.00 inch long
“bullet-shaped” beetle with an
extremely tough outer covering and distinct dark metallic
bronze color.
Adults feed on leaves or flowers, but the damage they
cause is usually minor. Females lay their eggs in bark
crevices. After hatching, the yellowish to white larvae
tunnel beneath bark and sometimes into the wood. After
feeding they form a pupa and undergo metamorphosis in
the feeding tunnel. When adults emerge, they make D-
shaped holes
in the bark about up to ¼ inch in diameter.
Feeding by larvae causes wet spots, dark staining, and
gnarled, ridged growths on bark. Portions of the bark
may crack and die. Infested limbs or entire trees, especially
young trees, may die.
Protecting trees from injuries and providing plants
with proper nutrients and a healthy growth
environment generally prevents attack by metallic wood
borers.
Partner Spotlight – Hickory Ridge
Nursery
For 35 years, Hickory Ridge Nursery has served clients
by providing high-quality landscape design and construction
services that are an excellent complement to Total Tree
Care services. Their specialties include:
- Residential landscape planting design
- Patios
- Exterior granite steps
- Stonewalls
- Walkways
- Concrete interlocking pavers
- Evergreen privacy screens
- Water-gardens
- High-quality lighting
Hickory Ridge Nurseries: 203-272-6066 or
info@hickoryridgenursery.com
Browse their online portfolio: http://totaltreecare.com/partners/landscaping.shtml
Contest - Where is This Tree?
The first person that tells us the correct location
of this tree will win a family dinner outing. We don’t
expect that anyone will know immediately just by looking
at the tree, so we’re creating a treasure hunt game.*
New hints will be published on our website each week
along with interesting comments. Send your answers to
mtoth@totaltreecare.com along with your name, address,
phone and email.
*Note that there was a winner to this contest. Please
click
here to go to the contest page and see who won our
contest.
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President's Message
I am proud of how green
Total Tree Care has become – both inside and out.
Thousands of specimen trees have
been preserved since 1957 and continue their legacy
of beauty, comfort and safety. As a green company,
we offer IPM Integrated Pest Management and ITM
Integrated Tree Management services as environmentally
responsible means for eliminating tree and shrub
pests and ticks while creating a healthy environment
for your trees.
We recycle all biomass that is generated from
pruning and tree removals. Over 90% of the 30,000
cubic yards of wood chips and logs that Total
Tree Care generates each year is pulverized into
high-grade decorative wood mulch.
We invest heavily in preventative
maintenance so that our equipment runs efficiently.
We use bio-fuels to power our fleet of over twenty
heavy trucks, pickup trucks and automobiles. We
recycle our used motor oil, tires, batteries,
paper and more.
We recognize the business value that is derived
by managing our “emissions per customer interaction”.
We are becoming a paperless business operation.
In this edition learn how our new website
helps customers and employees to be more efficient
in a paperless fashion.
Automated payments reduce paper
bills [with improved security]. Published reports
say that if all bills were processed electronically,
18.5 million trees would be spared annually and
2.1 million tons of greenhouse gases would not
be released into the atmosphere.
If you would like to enroll for electronic payment,
visit the Services
page on our website where you can Request Additional
Information.
E-newsletters and email save paper and provide
click-thru to additional information that is not
a feature of hard copy paper correspondence. If
you would like to receive our e-newsletter please
visit our website where you may easily subscribe.
It is my goal to eliminate the paper version of
our newsletter when all of our customers opt-in
to receive it electronically.
When you visit the “Who
We Are” page on our website and click on “Affiliations”,
you will see how we support many environmentally
friendly organizations throughout Connecticut.
As a final thought, “green”
means “go”. We will continue to move forward with
our efforts to have a green company theme permeate
all aspects of our business.
Luke Williams, President
lwilliams@totaltreecare.com
PS: I’d love to hear about your ideas for
helping Total Tree Care in its quest to become
a green company.
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