Recently Swingle’s Senior Consulting Arborist, Steve Geist, was featured in The Denver Post to discuss elm trees resistance to pesticides. In the past decade, elms have been hit with heavy infestations of European elm scale. Elm scale usually doesn’t kill the tree, but is more of a nuisance with sticky secretions coming from the scale. …
Read MoreSpring will be here before you know it. Now is a good time to start planning for a healthy landscape with the warm weather approaching, and Swingle wants your landscape to be ready with these 6 early spring landscape care tips. 6 Early Spring Landscape Care Tips Snow Mold: The first early spring landscape care…
Read MoreThere’s still plenty of time left in the winter season to head outdoors with your family and participate in some of the best activities Colorado has to offer. We’re fortunate enough to live in a beautiful state, where many of these activities are in our own back yards! Whether you’re looking to go skiing, snowshoeing,…
Read MoreWe live in a changing world but true principles never change in the midst of time. The following is a quote attributed to English author, Architect and Economist, John Ruskin (1819-1900) “It is unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money.…
Read MoreVoles, also know as meadow mice or field mice, are small brown to gray pudgy mammals, which are active year round and do not hibernate. Voles dig underground burrows and feed on vegetation – damaging your landscape including trees, turf, bushes and shrubs. Voles cause damage by gnawing through tree bark and eating other vegetation,…
Read MoreIt’s crazy to think that it’s already a new year! 2014 brought some unexpected surprises and exciting opportunities for Swingle, and we’re looking forward to 2015. As we move into the new year, Swingle is predicting emerald ash borer and the November 2014 freeze will impact our Colorado landscapes in 2015. Emerald Ash Borer Discovered…
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