TREE & PLANT HEALTH CARE
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Professional pruning is an
excellent way to prepare your
trees to withstand anything
nature can heap upon them this
winter.
Winter may send us fleeing to
our warm homes, but trees can
only drop their leaves, remain in
place and take whatever Mother
Nature heaps upon them.
Tree branches are subject to
winter winds and build-ups of
ice and snow. Tree crowns form
virtual walls that the winds can
barely penetrate, causing weak
limbs to break. Ice and snow add
a tremendous amount of weight
to limbs, which can also cause
them to break.
How do you prepare your trees to
stand up to storms and survive?
With professional pruning. Our
arborists work all winter long
to protect your valuable trees.
Call us now to inspect your
trees and tell you what they
need to make them safe as well
as beautiful.
Our arborists will remove weak
limbs to thin out the crown.
Limbs too weak to support the
added weight of ice and snow will
likely be removed. Our arbor-
ists may recommend that you
have us cable and brace weak
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Why Your Trees Need
Winter Pruning Now
limbs that are crucial to main-
taining the trees natural shape.
We call this type of pruning
structural pruning. It is pre-
scribed primarily to maintain
or improve the trees health by
removing weak limbs
Failure to remove weak limbs
can result in breakage during
even the mildest of storms.
When limbs break, they dont
break cleanly. At best, they leave
a jagged stub. At worst, they
can pull the bark off as they fall.
Professional pruning results in
nice, clean cuts.
This is also a good time to have
us aesthetically prune. Also
known as ornamental pruning,
this type of pruning shapes,
thins and brings a tree back to
its natural form.
After the leaves fall, we
can better see the trees
structure its skeleton. This
allows us to shape the tree to its
natural form.
Dormant pruning (i.e., pruning
in the winter when the leaves
have fallen and the tree is
dormant) also acts like an
anesthetic. Lets face it...prun-
ing wounds a tree. By having us
prune now, wounds have all
winter to heal (or more accu-
rately, callous over) before they
wake up and leaf out in spring.
Call now to schedule professional
pruning and repair.
Action Items
Call Kens Tree Care this week
to inspect and prune your
trees.
Follow our tree maintenance
recommendations.
Call Kens Tree Care if you
suffer storm damage.
 Your Trees Need An Annual Inspection
An annual tree inspection is a
very inexpensive insurance policy
for your valuable trees, and you
dont have to do anything but call
us to make an appointment.
Our professional arborists will
inspect your trees for signs of in-
sect and disease activity, environ-
mental stress, rotting or decay,
and all other hazards. They will
also determine whether your trees
need pruning and fertilization.
Remember, trees are alive. They
change over the course of a year,
just like we do.
budget accordingly.
The inspection results that we
present to you will include a
complete list of recommendations
for keeping your trees healthy,
or bringing them back to health
if that is needed. This list will be
prioritized so you can plan and
Safety concerns, such as weak
and broken branches or decay
in the trunk or branches, should
be remedied immediately. Health
concerns should be taken care of
during the appropriate season.
More aesthetic recommendations
that dont pose a risk can be held
off if necessary.

Kens Tree Care

Tree & Shrub Experts At A Glance
Our professional staff consists of:
ISA Certified Arborists Certified Nursery Landscape Professionals
Certified Line Clearance Tree Trimmers Certified National Safety Council First Aid Administrators
New Jersey & New York Certified Tree Experts
Caring For Your Trees & Shrubs Professionally Since 1980
We Continue To Raise The Bar On
Quality Tree Care In Our Area
Kens Tree Care continues to be Formal training and
one of the few commercial tree certification of our employees;
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