Many homeowners may choose to neglect tree maintenance when other projects around the home take precedence, but this has the potential of being a costly decision down the road. Regular pruning is good for a landscape for a number of reasons: it ensures trees are healthy and happy, adds to a home’s property value and minimizes risks and hazards.
Our team of experts at Promier Tree is sharing a closer look today at all the advantages of proper and routine tree maintenance:
Happy, healthy trees
Regularly pruning a tree rids it of dead or decaying branches, allowing nutrients to focus on the tree’s healthy growth instead. Removing dead limbs also increases air circulation and allows the sunshine to better reach the healthy parts of the tree. This results in a healthy, lush, aesthetically-pleasing tree. Trees can also be intentionally pruned for targeted growth direction, promoting future stability and health. Pruning trees also affords an opportunity to remove any decaying limbs that could attract pests and disease.
Curb appeal
Your landscape is the first — and sometimes only — thing people see about your home. A manicured landscape is aesthetically pleasing to the eye, and trees are a focal point of many properties. Trees that are regularly groomed can prevent unsightly overgrowth of the tree — or undergrowth of the shrubs beneath it that are struggling for air and sunshine — and will significantly add to a property’s value. A large part of our Johnson City arborists’ expertise includes pruning trees for shape and ridding them of crossing, weak or dead branches to make your landscape stand out.
Eliminate dangers
The National Storm Damage Center estimates that fallen trees cause more than $1 billion in property damage annually, and OSHA reports that more than 100 people are killed by falling trees every year. While not all of these tragedies can be controlled, regular tree inspections by our trained arborists in Kingsport will detect if any trees are dead and need to be preventatively cut down. Healthy trees are less likely to fall during wind and extreme weather, including thunderstorms in the summer and ice accumulation in the winter.
Arborists in Kingsport, Johnson City, and Bristol, Tennessee
Regular, professional maintenance of trees may seem like a costly commitment, but it can save a lot of money down the road by preventing catastrophic property damage that fallen trees are known to cause. Routine tree maintenance can also save lives. Pruning trees, big or small, promotes a tree’s overall growth, and turning to professionals ensures that trees are pruned correctly so that no irreversible damage is done to the tree. If you have some trees that could use trimming, give our ISA-certified arborists at Promier Tree in the Tri-cities area a call at (423) 872-2988, or contact us online today.