• TLC Update
• Critters & Cruds
• Tree of the Quarter
• Tree Care Tips – Give your trees TLC

Dear Friends & Fellow Tree Lovers

Spring sprung a little early on us this year. It seems to me that almost everything blooming of elms to the buzzing of flies is about 2-3 weeks ahead of normal. Flower and leaf bud opening and the emergence of most insects are driven by accumulation of heat units. In other words, how long has it been warm is more important than how warm did it get one or two days. Now, if we can only get a little bit more moisture.

We are well below our normal rainfall and still in an official drought throughout this area. A good part of the eastern half of Texas has officially broken their drought, but we aren’t so fortunate in west Texas. One thing that means for us is that we need to water to save many of our landscapes, but it doesn’t mean that we need to waste water.

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TLC Update

Tree Loving Care has done some business in the Permian Basin for over 20 years and have always thought that the trees in that area needed more love. To be better able to love all of West Texas trees, we have opened an office in Midland. Our phone number in the Permian Basin is 432-620-8733. If you have friends in that area, just tell them to remember to call 620-TREE.

Our new website should be up and running any day, hopefully, by the time you get this letter. We have been working on it for a couple of months and hope that you will find it much more helpful.

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Critters & Cruds

In the world of plants and the critters that feed on them, spring is a period of high activity. Aphids tend to feed on young succulent tissue, Elm Leaf Beetle are already hatching
the first generation, Pine Tip Moth burrows in the growing tip of pine trees and many insects are laying eggs or are feeding heavily, preparing to lay eggs.

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Tree of the Quarter

Carolina Buckthorn, Rhamnus Caroliniana, is a small tree commonly found in the acid soils of the eastern half of Texas and on more calcarious bottomlands in other parts of the state.

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Tree Care Tips – Give Your Trees TLC

When trees are under the kind of moisture stress that our trees have been under lately, they need a boost. Our organic fertilizer with humic acid, kelp, compost tea and iron is just what the Dr. ordered. The compost tea is packed with micro-organisms that help increase the uptake capacity of the root system. With little moisture falling from the sky, what moisture plants have been getting has been pumped from the ground. In one way, this adds to the difficulty.

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