This has been an unusually dry few months. The cold fronts that have arrived have mostly arrived without rain. A period of freezing night temperatures in the twenties is being predicted starting tomorrow for several nights in a row and few more nights the following week.
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Tree Damage from February Freeze Event
There are many questions about why some trees in the same block or surrounding area are fully leafed out following the freezing event in February and why some trees are struggling to come out. The answer to this is complicated. Oak trees are propagated from acorns and each tree can have a different progeny. Trees are like us. We are all human but have a different gene pool and just as we react differently to stress and disease, so do these trees. Some trees of the same species are more tolerant to the stress of the freezing temperatures.
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Freeze Damage Update
We are now over a month from the freezing weather and many of your plants have not leafed back out. Others have started to leaf out and most of these plants will recover. I know you want to know now if your plantings will survive but it is still too early to make that call.
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Irrigation System Maintenance
As a homeowner, maintaining your irrigation system is extremely important. It is your responsibility and now as we are approaching winter, it is a good time to conduct a zone by zone inspection of your system.
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