Author name: Bartlett Tree Experts

Article 4 of 12 from Trees: Dispelling Myths & Misinformation, prepared by the arborists of the Southwest Division of Bartlett Tree Experts as a community education initiative. One morning, a friend found his 15-foot-tall cedar elm uprooted and flat on the ground. What a waste! It had been planted about five years earlier and was

Article 3 of 12 from Trees: Dispelling Myths & Misinformation, prepared by the arborists of the Southwest Division of Bartlett Tree Experts as a community education initiative. You’ve seen them: trees whose bases look like telephone poles in the ground because no trunk flare is visible. That’s good, right? Because then the trunk flare and

Article 2 of 12 from Trees: Dispelling Myths & Misinformation, prepared by the arborists of the Southwest Division of Bartlett Tree Experts as a community education initiative. In construction, as in life, if you don’t lay a solid foundation, everything else is more likely to be a problem. It’s no different for trees, whose roots form

Article 1 of 12 from Trees: Dispelling Myths & Misinformation, prepared by the arborists of the Southwest Division of Bartlett Tree Experts as a community education initiative. A problem for property owners in managing their trees is that what seems logical regarding their care is often incorrect and harmful. A tree’s perceived ability to well withstand