Before your garden can really blossom, there is one crucial step needed: simply picking and planting your collection of flowering trees. For more information, follow along for the Cutting Edge Tree Professionals Flowering Trees Guide.
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Essential Tools For Caring For Your Garden and Trees in Pennsylvania
With an abundance of tools in the world of gardening, it’s important to make sure you’re selecting the best ones for your space. To make it easy to find the best garden tools we’ve pulled together our Top 10 list.
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.
Advantages of Winter Tree Work
By Dave Jackson, Arborist Representative The leaves are all raked up and now you are looking at your winter landscape waiting for spring to arrive. You may even be making a list of the things you want to do with your yard once warmer weather arrives. If tree work is...
Essential Steps to Protect Your Trees from Harsh Pennsylvania Winter Storms
Winter can be a challenging time for trees, especially in the state of Pennsylvania, where the weather can be unpredictable and severe. Harsh winter storms pose potential hazards to the health and safety of your trees. However, with proper preparation and care, you...
Timing Matters: The Best Time to Prune Oak Trees
Pruning is essential to maintain the health and aesthetics of oak trees. However, timing is crucial when it comes to pruning these majestic beauties. In this blog post, we explore the best time to prune oak trees, providing insights and guidance to ensure their...
Falling for Oaks: A Seasonal Study of Red Oak and White Oak Trees
Oaks in Pennsylvania Oaks are a common tree found in Pennsylvania. In fact, the oak/hickory forest type dominates the southern two-thirds of the state. Oaks are well known and enjoyed due to their many attributes, including beauty, timber, food for wildlife, firewood,...
The Spotted Lanternfly in Pennsylvania: A Guide for Fall Prevention
The spotted lanternfly is an invasive species invading Pennsylvania.
The 5 Best “Treescapes” in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s lush forests and diverse tree species make it a great destination for nature enthusiasts and tree lovers. From towering old-growth forests to urban green spaces, the state has many amazing tree viewing locations. Are you looking for a place to spend...
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...
PA Trees and Spring Allergies: Trees you have to know about so you can avoid them
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The Top 5 Tools Every Homeowner Needs for Yard Work
Caring for your yard without the proper tools can feel like a battle to any homeowner. This can lead to an unkempt, messy lawn and lots of frustration. Here is our list of the top 5 yard tools for every homeowner to keep in their arsenal to avoid frustration and messy...
Why Winter is a Great Time to Have Your Trees Pruned
The grass is no longer in need of cutting and the leaves have all been raked up. While it seems all your yard work is finished for the year, there is no better time than winter to prune your trees, especially oak trees. While most pruning can be done any time of year,...
“The other tree guy said….”
Discerning Legitimacy within Tree Companies Be aware of the dangers and risks of hiring just any tree service to handle your tree project. This article touches on price, equipment, and more when it comes to identifying a legit company or one that may cause more harm...
Everything You Need To Know About Needle Cast Diseases
Managing Needle Cast Diseases on Douglas Fir and Spruce A number of needle cast diseases are affecting fir and spruce trees. Both Rhabdocline and Swiss needle cast can affect Douglas fir. On spruces, including Colorado blue and Engelmann, the needle casting disease is...
New Invasive Insects: What you can do to protect your Hemlocks
New Insects: Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and Elongate Hemlock Scale Two introduced insects are significantly impacting our state tree’s growth and survival, hemlock wooly adelgid and elongate hemlock scale. Hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA, Adelges tsugae) is an aphid-like...
The Beginner’s Guide to Tree Responsibility
A beginner’s guide to understanding tree responsibility! Did you know can save yourself time, money and relationships in the long run by understanding now which trees on and along your property are your responsibility or not? Not every tree near and crossing your...
Summer Considerations for Spongy Moth
[siteorigin_widget class="WP_Widget_Media_Image"][/siteorigin_widget][siteorigin_widget class="WP_Widget_Media_Image"][/siteorigin_widget]What should you be doing? This has been another year of significantly high Lymantria dispar, or spongy moth (formerly “gypsy...
Why Teams Matter Most
Repurposing an old post for our readers for a month on teamwork. Our motto at Cutting Edge Tree Professionals is to redefine the boundaries of excellence through tree services and plant health care solutions. Part of how we do that is to serve people throughout the...
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...
Your Simple Fall Tree Checklist
We’ve pulled together a simple list to make sure that your trees are taken care of this fall into winter. It’s important to take steps to make sure that your trees, shrubs, and property are fully winterized. Following this simple list will save you problems through...
It’s Tick Season: What To Do And What To Avoid With Ticks
Time to Talk About Ticks Now that it’s October, it’s time to talk about ticks. According to Penn State Extension, October is prime tick season in Pennsylvania. Given that ticks are so prevalent, we all need to be aware of the effects of ticks forarborists, farmers and...
Seasonal Pennsylvania Problems: The Spotted Lantern Fly
Getting Rid of the Spotted Lantern Fly One seasonal problem we see pop up each fall: dealing with the spotted lantern fly (SLF), which is known for destroying crops and trees. Because of the seasonal issue, we’ve put together a short list of ways to get rid of this...
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...
Common Apple Tree Diseases
We do a lot of apple tree pruning at Cutting Edge Tree Professionals. Apple trees make up a huge percentage of trees in Pennsylvania. Apple trees are common in personal gardens and homes and full apple orchards. According to an article by Penn State Extension,...
Should You Plant Trees In Summer?
Our PSA on planting trees in the summer: At Cutting Edge Tree Professionals, we recommend not planting trees in the summertime, but waiting till early to mid-fall to plant in Pennsylvania. Why? We all know Pennsylvania is a state with four distinct seasons. In the...
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...
Hot Topic Pests This Year
This year is what scientists are calling a season for the 17-year cicada. It has been 17 years since the last influx of cicadas coming above ground. This spring they are expected to arrive in greater numbers- billions possibly a trillion- than past years. This is a...
Precautions for Winter
Preparing for Winter As we all gear up for winter, there are a number of considerations for tree care to take in order to make sure that they stay in the best condition possible. From the elements to animals, damage is to be expected. Unless precautions are taken. At...
Two Ways Trees Can Save You Money
We all know money doesn’t grow on trees, but that doesn’t have to stop us from utilizing trees to our monetary advantage. At Cutting Edge Tree Professionals we care about trees primarily because we believe we are called to be good stewards of creation, helping not...
The Spotted Lantern Fly – Why to be Aware
What is a Spotted Lantern Fly? A Spotted Lantern Fly is an invasive insect to Pennsylvania and after the summer months grows into maturity. By the fall season, the fly begins to swarm trees and lay its eggs. It was discovered in Pennsylvania in 2014 and has since...