5 Must Know Tree and Shrub Disease Prevention Tips

You may have heard or experienced diseases that destroyed your beautiful shrubbery or trees. These diseases can attack any tree given the right conditions and environment.

As they say, prevention is always better than cure. Therefore, Fast created some quick and easy tips to help prevent these ailments from affecting your trees and plant ecosystem. Adhering to these steps may help improve the longevity of your trees and shrubbery.

1. Remove Visibly Deteriorated Trees and Shrubs

To stop the spread of diseases to healthy trees, prune limbs or remove decaying or dead trees. To ensure that the thread is totally removed, it is best to employ the services of an arborist or tree service to take down the tree even to its deepest root.

2. Keep Your Garden Clean

As often as possible, walk your landscape to keep yourself familiar with the condition of the trees, plants, and shrubs. This enables you to observe and detect changes in the color or condition of your trees and shrubs.

Remove fallen leaves from diseased trees and plants and keep your garden clean. Prune any affected branches and trees to keep infected organisms contained.

3. Protect Using Fungicides and Insecticides.

Spraying trees in your landscape with fungicides is a preventive measure to stop the spread of fungal diseases. Thus, the spread of Oak Wilt, fire blight and other diseases can be contained.

Insecticides also prevent spread of disease by attacking its carriers. When you kill the bugs and their eggs, naturally it prevents any contamination from spreading further.

Larva feed on the sapwood beneath the bark hence it is of utmost importance that they are controlled. Usually, they kill the tree as they mature and bore out through the bark.

4. Keep all Gardening Tools Clean

Wipe or spray clean all your tools (shovels, pruners, rake, etc.) to remove debris or any contaminating organisms. Use bleach or alcohol to thoroughly clean the tools used on any diseased trees and plants. This is good practice to do in general, but it’s critical in preventing the spread of diseases to healthy plants.

5. Make Yearly Arborist Inspections

To keep abreast with the condition of your landscape, schedule annual visits with the arborist as prompt detection and immediate response is key to improving the longevity of your trees. You will be notified of the best time for trimming or tree removal of any diseased trees. Visit http://www.fasttreeremovalatlanta.com/when-tree-pruning-cutting-emergency-removal-atlanta-ga for ideal times to inspect and perform tree services.

The Benefits of Trees for Homeowners

It is only natural for trees to get ill now and then. It is also known that trees are insects source of sustenance. With this in mind, sometimes, it is best to allow nature rule and take the full course.

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Best Time for Pruning, Cutting and Emergency Tree Removal

The act of pruning a tree is to remove specific stems or branches for the benefit of the whole tree. Pruning could also be used to thin the tree canopy, opening the tree to more sunlight and air; ensuring it stays healthy and free of disease. Cutting usually applies to larger branches, and is used to remove dead, damaged, or diseased branches to minimize damage from insects and other organisms. At Fast Tree we perform all of these Atlanta tree services, see our experts in action, then read below to discover the benefits of pruning, cutting, and an emergency tree service.

Best Time to Prune and Do Tree Trimming

Small branches can be pruned whenever they need to be, at any time of the year. Large branches – branches comprising over 5-10% of the crown of the tree – should only be pruned in winter when the plant is dormant, or in the middle of summer after flowering in plants that are susceptible to damage from winter frost. Plants should never be pruned in autumn due to the fact that the air is filled with diseases and decay fungi.

Summer is the best time to prune plants that bleed a lot from cuts, or recover from them slowly – such as maples and magnolias. They can also be pruned after the dormancy period starts. For woody plants where flowering occurs early in the season (apples), pruning should be done as soon as flowering occurs. Waiting too long to prune will damage the flowers of the next season. Azaleas, lilacs, and forsythia are other prime examples of this category.

Cutting Branches or Limbs

There are a number of reasons to cut tree limbs; they may be diseased or dead; they could be crossing or rubbing against other limbs; or perhaps they are competing too much with other branches and have to be cut away.

Raising or opening the canopy is another reason for limbs to be removed. This is done to open the canopy to more sunlight or provide additional vertical clearance. Winter is the best time to remove the limbs and branches of trees. Diseases are inactive during the winter and aren’t likely to damage the trees. Cutting a tree open during the summer, however, is just inviting diseases and pests into the tree.



Keep in mind that there are some trees that will “bleed” heavily when they are cut, which is sap seeping out of the wound. While it could look unsightly at best, and serious at the worst, there’s no harm. Trees that are prone to this kind of heavy bleeding are birch, beech, maple, yellowwood and elm.

You might think that it would be a good idea to dress these fresh wounds using wound dressings or tree paints, which are made and marketed for just such an occasion. In my experience, these are rarely necessary. If anything, they actually slow down the natural healing process of the tree. Trees are incredibly adaptable; they respond well to adverse conditions, so we advise a clean cut and allowing the tree recover by itself.

Atlanta Emergency Tree Removal Services

It can be tough to decide the right time to remove a tree that develops problems. If a dying tree isn’t likely to harm the people or the structures around it, then it could be left to die where it is. There are also some animals, such as woodpeckers, thrive in old dead trees and use them as nests and feeding grounds.

If you don’t mind the cost and you want to keep the tree, then it’s possible to extend its life by continuing to remove the diseased and dead portions and giving it plenty of water to its roots. This can become expensive or a concern to your neighbours. If it appears the tree could fall and damage their property, they will probably insist and urge you have it removed. Upon visible signs or an arborist determining the tree is doomed and a hazard, hire an emergency tree removal service www.fasttreeremovalatlanta.com/emergency-tree-removal-atlanta to ensure it’s safely removed and your property does not get damaged.

If you’re in Atlanta, our emergency tree removal team is located in the heart of the city and offers 24 hour emergency services.

Tree Pruning, Cutting and Removal

Pruning the limbs from a tree can make the landscape around it look much healthier and better, as long as you do it properly. Pruning at the wrong time, or taking shortcuts, is just asking for future complications. A diseased or damaged tree will require cutting, but may be preserved if it is addressed early. However, when a ravishing disease or storm damage happens, emergency tree removal becomes the only option to avoid damage to your person or property.

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