Meet Dan: Our Tree and Landscape Manager
Meet Dan Barwinski, Wachtel Tree Science’s Tree and Landscape Department Manager.Continue Reading
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle originally published his children’s book in 1969 about a caterpillar that eats everything in its path and eventually turns into a beautiful butterfly, enjoyed by all. There is another side to this story – this time instead of a beautiful butterfly the caterpillar turns into a regular colored moth.Continue Reading
Mycorrhizae, the Fantastic Fungus!
The various relationships between Mycorrhizae and a tree’s roots are referred to as “symbiotic” since they both benefit by promoting each other. Learn how we can promote a mycorrhizal network in our soils to benefit a tree’s overall health.Continue Reading
Athletes Are Taking Care of Your Trees
Our team needs to be proficient in physical exercise to keep your trees healthy and beautiful. At Wachtel Tree Science we promote, encourage, and look out for one another to assure that we are all taking care of our bodies.Continue Reading
What’s Wrong with My Magnolia Tree?
Magnolia scale is one of many types of scale that affects trees and is a difficult pest to control. Learn how it impacts your trees and how to get scale under control. Continue Reading
What Lurks Below
There is a danger present that is now unseen – hidden in the weeds but ready to strike! This danger is very dry subsoil hiding under a camouflage of mud. Learn what can be done. Continue Reading
Employee Story: Brooke Stemple
Meet Brooke Stemple, a Production Arborist and Consulting Arborist. Get to know Brooke and learn why she enjoys working at Wachtel Tree Science.Continue Reading
A Guide to Seasonal Tree Maintenance
Our comprehensive guide to tree maintenance will walk you through the best time for a tree treatment, when to prune a tree, and more to keep your trees healthy.Continue Reading
Tree Cabling and Bracing: Support Systems & Techniques
Learn more about why tree cable techniques and tree bracing techniques are used, and if you need our services on your property. Continue Reading
Consider Treating Ash Trees
There are a few ways to look at the effects of EAB: Do nothing and remove ash trees as they are killed by EAB. Proactively remove ash trees in order to lessen the landscape’s dependence on them. Plant non-ash trees to replace losses or to anticipate losses. Treat selected ash trees with the very effective, but more costly, trunk injection of insecticide for 2-years of protection (repeated every 2 years for sustained protection).Continue Reading