It’s time to get excited for spring! The birds are returning, the flowers are blooming, and the days are getting longer. The cold is soon to be a distant memory so it’s time to prepare for some spring activities. Camping: Soak up the beauty of the Rocky Mountains. Colorado offers countless camping grounds throughout their…
Read MoreTour you landscape and inspect for any damage Early spring is the perfect time to assess your landscape for any damage from the 2014 November freeze and fall hailstorms. Most landscapes will have sustained some sort of damage ranging from moderate to more severe. Recently planted trees and weak, delicate plants have already shown severe…
Read MoreRecently 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…
Read More2014 brought some unexpected surprises, along with exciting opportunities for Swingle and we’re looking forward to 2015. A few notable occurrences include the late spring freeze, which impacted many of our trees. There was widespread Fire Blight along the Front Range, Redheaded Sawfly attacked trees in Elbert and Douglas Counties over the summer months, and…
Read MoreFor the past nine years, Swingle has worked with the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in Loveland, Colorado to care for and preserve a Washington elm tree, which is claimed to be a part of American history. It has been rumored George Washington first took command of the American Army under a large white American…
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