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Guidance for Properly Planting Balled and Burlapped Trees
Cutting Edge Tree Professionals cares about your trees, even before they are planted. Follow our steps for properly planting your balled and burlapped trees.
Benefits of Shade Trees: Saving Money and Adding Value
In landscaping, homeowners often focus on the aesthetic appeal and curb appeal of their properties. However, there’s a hidden gem that can provide both beauty and practical benefits—shade trees. These giants beautify your yard and offer financial benefits. In this...
Trees and Drought: What you need to know
Pennsylvania drought My grass is brown, I haven’t cut it in two weeks now. I don’t mind too much. I’d rather not mow. But with the defoliation my trees experienced last summer from spongy moths (formerly gypsy moths) and the dry start to summer we...
Soil Management for Central Pennsylvania Homeowners: Enhancing Soil Quality for Healthy Tree Growth
Healthy trees begin with healthy soil. As a homeowner in Central Pennsylvania, you may be interested in improving your property’s soil quality and fertility to promote vigorous tree growth. Proper soil management is vital to creating a thriving landscape and...
The Intermediate Guide: Winterization of Trees
When your weekends consist of lounging in front of the fireplace, cozying up with a warm blanket, and watching holiday movies on marathon; don’t forget about the icon of the holiday season- trees. Winterization of trees should start now! It is essential to give trees...
One thing that can limit the growth of urban and community trees
Soil compaction: How it happens Soils are composed of individual particles (sand, silt, and clay) and aggregates or clumps of particles. Between these soil particles and aggregates are spaces or pores. These “pore spaces” hold air and water. Large-sized soil pore...
What is a “Feature Tree” and why you might want one for your yard!
Scale the natural beauty Trees are functional by nature. Trees provide fruits and food, homes for critters and birds, and they recycle the air that we breathe. But trees are more than functional, they are also naturally beautiful. Planting a Feature Tree in your yard...
Upcycle Your Christmas Tree – 5 Creative Ideas
Taking care of the environment is one of the key reasons for why we do our work at Cutting Edge Tree Professionals. We’ve collected a few ideas of things you can do to upcycle your Christmas Tree. You too can care for the environment by getting rid of your tree in a...
Why Watering Matters Through the Fall Season
With leaves pretty much gone from trees this time of the year in Pennsylvania, we know growing season is over and we may stop the gardening and watering. But, fallen leaves is not exactly the best gauge year-to-year for when it’s time to quit ourselves. If you take...
3 Things You Can Do To Help Pollinators This Fall
3 Things you can do in the fall to help pollinators We all know pollinators are important around the world, but how can we help the pollinators in our piece of the world in Pennsylvania? There are some specific actions that you can take this fall and moving forward to...
Shrubs: How They Help Your Property
Closer Look at How Shrubs Help Your Property Shrubs are a useful plant for homeowners and landscape artists. At Cutting Edge Tree Professionals, we don’t just care for trees but plants of all kinds. From plant health care and disease prevention to even planting, we...
How Much Water is Enough In the Summer?
Summer heat, longer days, more sunlight, coupled with rain and storms—summertime we may want and need to take watering our plants and trees into our own hands. After all, we know plants and trees need properly maintained soil nutrients with water to grow healthy and...
The Best Flowering Trees to Plant in Pennsylvania
Trees are important to yards and properties for lots of reasons. In an article we posted this past fall, we mentioned two ways that trees can save you money. Beyond the financial benefits for planting trees, there are also aesthetic and environmental benefits. We’ve...
Tree Trimming v Tree Pruning – What’s The Difference?
Though pruning and trimming don’t mean the same thing, the two words often get mixed up with each other. We wanted to bring some clarity on the difference, especially as it gets close to spring and summer seasons when many people call for trimming and pruning...
5 Creative Ideas to Upcycle Your Christmas Tree
Taking care of the environment is one of the key reasons for why we do our work at Cutting Edge Tree Professionals. We’ve collected a few ideas of things you can do to upcycle your Christmas Tree. You too can care for the environment by getting rid of your tree in a...
Winter Planting – When It Works
One job we’ve enjoyed this past week in December was a tree and shrub planting project. Though many people wouldn’t consider wintertime feasible for yard planting, we’ve come up with tips for how it can work! Soil When planting in the winter, our first consideration...