Most nursery professionals use their interaction with customers as an opportunity to educate them on making smart decisions, whether that be using the correct product for a specific problem or directing them to plants for a particularly difficult spot in the yard or garden.
One of the smartest decisions a person can make is planting trees around their yard or community. The benefits of trees are immeasurable in terms of the comfort they bring to your home environment, but they can also be measured in terms of energy savings, air quality, filtering storm water runoff and increasing property values.
So how do you find out? Where do you go? I went to www.treebenefits.com, entered our zip code and entered a few of the older trees we have around our property. With inputs of location, species and tree size, users will get an understanding of the environmental and economic value trees provide on an annual basis.
I found that I had accumulated over $1000 a year in benefits, thousands of pounds of atmospheric carbon was taken out of the ozone, and much to my surprise I ve reduced my need for natural gas by about 11% – compared to a similar size property and home without trees.
Another benefit is an increased property value that goes up with each tree, and with each year as it matures. I did not include any of the evergreens around our home and the savings they provide through wind reduction and overall air quality.
I encourage going to the website and seeing how many pounds of carbon the average Ash or Maple tree will filter. A well-placed tree can also lengthen the life of lawn grass and other landscaping by providing a little afternoon shade from our hot summer sun, which in turn lowers the usage of water to irrigate.
Find out the benefits your own trees are bringing you at: www.treebenefits.com
Go to www.treenm.com for some more great information about the benefits of trees in our area.
And plant a tree when you can
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Hi Jennifer,
My wife and I came in late last year and you spent over an hour helping us with several problems in our yard. You gave us some great recommendations and sold us some good products that have helped our yard.
We have a question regarding fruit trees. We would like to plant a peach tree and an apple tree (and maybe one or two more that my wife might throw in at the last minute!). We live up east of Tramway by Lomas/Indian School and are a couple blocks from the foothills. We don’t have alot of room in our backyard so we’re looking for smaller growing trees. I was wondering if you could help us?
Thanks in advance.
Jeff
Jennifer,
Yes, I do water it much more than when it was small, I have a drip hose buried around the tree, as close to the perimeter as I can get it, and also looped around near the base. The tree was about 2 years old when I bought the house in ’06What do you mean by “Green Kings”? The tree is in a xeriscaped yard, and all the plantings around have drip lines to and around them. The safest side of the tree seems to be the southeast side. How would I apply the Fertilome Soil Acidfier, some holes in the ground? I did that with a cottonwood tree at my last house, with the iron, and poured it into the holes via a funnel. Don’t miss those trees by the way….Also, when should I do this, now or in the fall?
Thanks,
Tom
Hi, I have a globe willow, approximately 6 years old, that is doing poorly, started last season, losing leaves on some branches, and even a large branch that died. This year, I trimmed out all the dead or dieing branches, and one more has passed, and the tree is rather thin leaf wise. I am on the west side, and I do water this tree via a drip hose around the drip line area. Is this tree doomed, I don’t know what I can be doing wrong, I’ve never lost a tree, even saved an ash when the beetles were attacking. I hope I can save this tree!
Tom,
There are a couple of things that you are fighting with a Willow on the west side of Albuquerque – terribly sandy soil, and this time of year, hot, dry winds. First, if the tree has matured enough, the original amount of water it was getting when it was planted will likely not suffice in such sandy soil. My suggestion would be to add emitters to the irrigation and insert those emitters in 2 – 3 “Green Kings”. These are a deep-root watering system we carry at Jericho and have proven to be extremely helpful in the desert southwest. Thethey will come in particularly handy if your tree is planted in a rock area, because there is no evaporation to speak of. If by chance this tree is planted in an area with rock “mulch” I would consider creating
a cooler environment around the base of the tree.
The last thing I will mention is that your willow would love a little concoction of Fertilome Soil Acidifier + Iron, along with an extra dose of chelated iron to supplement it. The soil acidifier is mostly soil sulfur, which will open the pathway for the tree to take up iron more efficiently.
Hi, love your website and the way it’s laid out. i’ll look you up when i start my summer projects.