Your trees and shrubs are the most expensive part of your landscape, yet they are often the most neglected.
In Idaho Falls, a "set it and forget it" approach leads to yellowing leaves, stunted growth, and trees that eventually succumb to pests.
Professional Plant Health Care (PHC) isn't just about treating sick plants - it’s about proactively protecting your property’s value.
Because of our highly alkaline soil and aggressive insects such as aphids and spider mites, plants in Eastern Idaho face constant stress.
A professional PHC program provides the deep-root fertilization and systemic injections that your landscape needs to survive the high-desert climate.
If you want a vibrant, healthy yard that thrives year-round, here are the 6 major benefits of hiring a Plant Health Care expert in Idaho Falls.
Bugs are tiny. How do they eat so much?
Tree-eating bugs can be a real nightmare, sucking the life from your trees, devouring the leaves, and causing entire trees to die.
Wood-boring insects tunnel under bark and feast, destroying your beautiful trees.
Aphids pierce stems, leaves, and buds of tender new plants, sucking out the fluids. Then they leave a sticky substance behind that attracts other feasting bugs.
Scale suck sap from trees and shrubs, causing leaves to wilt and stunting your plants’ growth.
Your trees and shrubs are the foundation of your beautiful landscaping, and a big investment.
A plant health care company swoops in with sprays, injections, and the skills and training to use them, shutting down the bug buffet.
Tree injections are like shots for your trees. They treat diseases and insects like borers, aphids, spider mites, and scale by delivering “medicine” directly into your tree.
Plant health care specialists inject treatments right into the tree trunk, where it’s quickly taken up by the vascular system and distributed throughout the tree.
This direct treatment works faster and is more effective than spray treatments.
Tree injections deliver fast nutrients to ailing trees, too.
Do you have any maples? Maples often have “iron chlorosis,” a nutrient deficiency. They can’t absorb all the nutrients they need from the soil.
Plant health care services in Idaho Falls, ID include deep root tree fertilization, which injects nutrients for your tree directly deep into the soil, rather than spreading it over the top.
By injecting the fertilizer with high pressure, the nutrients can reach the deepest tree roots fast, feeding your tree from the roots up.
The fertilizer is delivered straight to the tree’s roots, with a long, cool-looking wand, so your tree gets an immediate nutrition boost.
Then, over time, the nutrients make their way to the rest of your tree, making it healthier and more vibrant.
Deep-root fertilization strengthens your tree, enabling it to better fend off pests and diseases.
How do you know if your trees need this nutrient boost from a plant health care services company?
Look for these signs:
What’s not to love about fall? Caramel apples, football games, pumpkin-spiced everything. (Is it just us, or is it getting out of control?)
Bugs love fall, too — but they celebrate by laying eggs in your trees and shrubs.
They’ll lurk there all winter, then in spring, while you’re busy hiding Easter eggs, their eggs will hatch into hungry larvae that will devour your precious trees.
Terrifying, right? How to stop this dastardly devastation?
Dormant oil spray. Also called horticultural oil, dormant oil spray is a highly refined petroleum product used as an insecticide to suffocate insects and insect eggs that have overwintered on trees and shrubs.
Instead of poisoning the bugs, plant health care specialists basically smother them with the oil.
The oil kills any lingering insects as well as their eggs, so they won’t hatch in the spring.
Applying dormant oil for trees at the right time can prevent significant damage.
Plant health care specialists start spraying trees here in Idaho Falls in early to mid-March, coating the leaves and spraying dormant oil into cracks and crevices in the bark where insects have laid their eggs.
And, good news: dormant oil spray is less toxic to beneficial insects like ladybugs than other types of insecticide.
Everybody’s hungry out there. Fertilizer gives your trees and shrubs a boost that improves their health and appearance, from strong roots to glossy leaves to plentiful, pretty flowers.
When your trees and shrubs struggle to get the important nutrients they need, they get weak. That makes them more susceptible to damaging insects and diseases.
Struggling trees and shrubs won’t grow as tall or as full as they could, either.
Can’t you do it yourself? Sure. But will you? (Be honest.)
A plant health care services company will show up at exactly the right times of year and get the job done. Then you can relax and eat that candy bar in front of your trees without feeling guilty.
When your plants struggle, your landscaping lets you down, from foliage full of holes to wilted leaves.
Why risk your landscaping investment?
A good plant health care program is your plants’ best friend, offering food and fixes for every pesky problem. Then you can rest easy.
Ready to boost your plants’ health for a more impressive yard? We’ve got your back — Plant Health Care Services can be added for our Idaho Falls customers who use our full-service lawn care program.
That gives you extra peace of mind — choose an Idaho Falls professional lawn care service that bundles your yard’s most-needed treatments into one convenient, no-fuss plan, plus know your valuable shrubs are getting the nourishing nutrients they need to thrive, and treatment for the pesky insects that love to attack them.
Got a few minutes? That’s all you need to get started. Just fill out the form on this page, call us at (208) 656-9131 or read more about our services. Then you can kick back and relax in your healthy, thriving yard.
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