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Why Are Tree Leaves Changing Color Early in Summer?
Tree leaves changing color early in Summer indicate stress, not seasonal change. Cutting Edge Tree Professionals diagnoses root injury and drought damage.
Protect Your Tree Leaves: Tips for Late Frost Prevention
Protect your tree leaves from late frost with essential tips. Learn effective strategies to safeguard your plants and ensure a thriving garden all year round.
How to Know If Your Tree Made It Through Winter
Learn expert tips to assess if your tree has survived winter. Identify signs of damage and ensure your trees thrive this spring with proper care techniques.
Is Your Landscaper Putting Your Trees at Risk?
Ensure peace of mind with professional tree services in State College, PA. Understand risks, avoid common tree trimming mistakes, and maintain safe landscapes.
Don’t Let Vines Strangle Your Trees
Allowing vines to climb up trees is never a good idea. Vines like English ivy (Hedera helix), which start by covering the ground often end up quite literally “glueing” themselves to the trunks of trees as they climb. This can restrict tree diameter growth causing the...
Tree Preservation Matters: How Community Action Saved Mount Nittany
How tree preservation starts at home. Be inspired by the community that took action and saved Mount Nittany.
Our Guide to Winter Apple Tree Pruning
As winter continues in Central Pennsylvania, our apple trees and other fruit trees stand bare against the cold. At first glance, it might seem like nothing is happening — no leaves, no flowers, no fruit. But this dormant season is actually one of the most important...
Secure Competitive Tree Service Bids for Your HOA
Secure the best tree service bids for your HOA. Learn how to effectively bid on tree work, ensuring quality care for your community’s trees.
Fall Scenic Views in Pennsylvania: Top Hikes to Explore
A vibrant collage of fall scenic views in Pennsylvania, showcasing Central PA’s Ricketts Glen with sugar maples, Eastern PA’s Mt. Tammany with white oaks, and Western PA’s Minister Creek with hemlocks, all in glowing reds and golds. Cutting Edge Tree Professionals’ logo is overlaid, highlighting expert tree care for these stunning forests.
Summer Tree Care for Central PA Homeowners
Ensure your trees enhance your Central PA garden this summer. Contact Cutting Edge Tree Professionals for a free consultation and let our experts create a customized care plan for your landscape.
Integrated Pest Management: Protect Your Landscape the Smart, Sustainable Way
Your landscape is an investment—and like any investment, it needs proper care and protection. While watering, pruning, and mowing are routine tasks, what often gets overlooked is pest management.
Managing Pests and Diseases for a Successful Planting Season
Spring is the perfect time to plant new trees, shrubs, and flowers. However, it’s also a time when pests and diseases are most active.
Mitigating Winter Stress on Trees: Expert Pruning and Care Techniques
Winter stress on trees can lead to significant damage if not addressed properly. Learn how strategic pruning, protective measures like anti-desiccants, and understanding the unique challenges of cold weather can save your trees from winter’s harsh grip. Dive into our guide for expert tips on mitigating winter stress on trees to ensure your landscape thrives through the coldest months.
3 Essential Benefits of Fall Pruning with a Tree Care Team
The leaves of trees have dropped in late fall in Pennsylvania. It's the perfect time to hire a tree care team and prepare your trees for the winter ahead. Fall pruning is essential for the health and longevity of your trees, but it can also be a challenging and...
Apple Trees: Which Is One Is For You
Apple Trees have become a staple when thinking of the fall season. Originally Apple Trees were native to Kazakhstan and came to America during the period of the Silk Road. Since then Apple Trees have produced the most popular fruit eaten amongst fruits and vegetables. Due to the high amount of kinds of apples and apple trees, some may need to learn which apple is right for them. In the article below we are going to talk about everything apple so that you can find the perfect fit for your yard and your tastebuds.
Spotted Lanternflies
Spotted lanternflies emerged as a significant pest in recent years, for Pennsylvania, they emerged as a large issue in 2014, causing concern among environmentalists, farmers, and homeowners. Every year homeowners all across Pennsylvania are warned about Spotted Lantern Flies, and when to kill them. The issue has gotten so bad, that many counties in Pennsylvania are quarantined, and the Department of Agriculture has created a phone number to call when you spot one. Here are some tips, tricks, and knowledge about the Spotted Lantern Fly to know so you can fight back.
Top 10 Shade Trees in Pennsylvania
Everyone can agree the summer sun is what we look forward to during the cold winter months. However, some days the sun can be too strong for you, your family, and even your furry friends. Having fun in the sun, with a place to cool off under, is the ideal way to spend...
How to Keep Your Tree Healthy from Needle Cast
The summers in Pennsylvania can be beautiful with the green foliage of the vast forests that surround the state. We love walking through the vast and lush greenery that surrounds our states. However, while the summer can bring life to our beautiful trees, it can also give life to unfortunate sicknesses to our trees. Pests and diseases of trees can be complicated, especially when you do not know what you are looking for.
Identifying the Top 5 Pennsylvania Tree Diseases
Your trees are valuable items of your property, that’s why it is essential to make sure you are keeping them healthy– especially from the dangers of tree diseases. Below you’ll find more information about how to identify common Pennsylvania tree diseases, and what action to take if you think your trees have been affected.
Your Yard in Bloom: Best Flowering Trees in Pennsylvania
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.
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.
Spring Planting Guide: How To Root Your Garden In Healthy New Trees
A guide to make the complicated nuances of spring planting easy for anyone!
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...
Protecting Trees: Empowering Actions to Prepare for Hurricane Season in the Northeast
Hurricane season poses significant risks to both human lives and the natural environment. Winds and storms made their way up north creating damage for families in State College area just last month in October. Hurricane Season is still underway, till the end of...
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,...
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...
5 Signs That Your Tree Needs to be Pruned
As a homeowner, you may not always know when it’s time to prune your trees. But, there are some signs that your trees need to be pruned, and an arborist can help make the job easier. In this blog, we’ll discuss some of the signs that your trees need to be...
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 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...
Arborist Equipment
While many of us are aware of the task we hire a professional tree company to complete, few know exactly what is going on in the process of completing these tasks. Ever wonder what tools an arborist is using on your property? Read on for a better understanding of...
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...
Oak Wilt: The sign that it’s time to see a plant doctor
Oak trees and humans have a lot in common when it comes to their health. We both drink clean water, eat nutrient rich foods, and take vitamins. Why? This is our attempt to be proactive on our well-being. It gives us the most favorable chances of not catching illnesses...
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...
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...
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...
Topping is for Ice Cream Not Trees
Tree topping is not considered a viable practice for tree care according to current industry standards. This controversial topic in past years sparked debate, but now quality arborists know there are many alternatives to tree topping. At Cutting Edge Tree...
Four Easy Steps to Your Springtime Yard and Plant Healthcare Check
At Cutting Edge Tree Professionals, we want to keep our readers up to date on the tree and plant health care services that we offer; that way you’ll never miss out! As spring time is already here, we have come up with a short list to help make your springtime yard and...
Pay Attention to the Signs
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Wait Before You Prune: A PSA From Our Professional Team
A potentially fatal disease called Oak Wilt (Ceratocystis fagacearum) is beginning to spread more rapidly this time of year, and pruning Oaks during the growing season could expose them to infection. Oak trees are common to our north eastern region and many people...
How Our Growing Team Matters To Our Core Values
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