Enhanced Sterling Tree Care Plan
Tree care
(7 service visits & 1 Arborist inspection No Charge)
This is our premier service for our most sophisticated properties. This program is for the more complex landscape in need of a more comprehensive and aggressive service program. Our enhanced program provides 7 applications as well as an additional arborist inspection. You will receive the 5 regularly scheduled visits included in our Sterling Tree Care Program as well as 2 additional sprays to properly control fungus, blights and other diseases during the season. If your roses show black spots, junipers and dogwoods suffer from tip blight, or if your crab apple or flowering cherry trees suffer year after year with scabs or rust, this program is essential for your property. The enhanced Sterling plan will keep your trees and shrubs blooming and growing to perfection once again. This program is highly recommended for newly planted landscapes or landscapes with many exotic plants.
Sterling Tree Care Program
(5 service visits & 1 Arborist inspection No Charge)
Our Sterling Tree Care Program will maintain your property throughout the season. This tried and true program has been tuned through the years. These 5 applications maintain healthy trees and shrubs and control fleas & ticks, mites, caterpillars, hemlock adelgid and more. It consists of two Horticultural Oil applications (Spring & Fall), and three insecticidal sprays with fungicide and Multi-purpose spray as required.
Economy Tree Care Package
(4 service visits)
A more economical approach to tree care, this program tries to achieve plant health care goals while paying attention to your budget. It helps limit the environmental impact while controlling scales, caterpillars, and flea and tick insect populations.
Sterling Organic Programs
(Custom 7 & 5 Arborists visit customized plans available)
These programs consist solely of organic products. We use only products approved by the organic material research institute. Our 7 visit program strives to control scales, certain mites, caterpillars and some common funguses. We recommend the 7 visit plan as organic solutions have a limited residual effect.
Sterling Lawn Care Program
(Custom 6 visit plan)
Our six visit lawn plan consists of 5 fertilizers applied through out the growing season and 1 grub control application in the summer months. These treatments help develop a strong root system and increase resistance to insect and diseases. Each visit may include additional services such as; crabgrass control (spring), spot spraying for weeds, fungicidal applications, spot seeding small bare areas and lawn sprays for turf insects and Lime (fall)
Organic Lawn Care
Our organic lawn care program strives to maintain healthy turf without weed killers or insecticides. We use only organic products as approved by the Organic Materials Research Institute including but not limited to fertilizer & spot seeding. Please remember when selecting this service that nothing organic kills weeds, chinch bugs or grubs.
Winter Protection Plan
Insure a beautiful landscape in the spring. Our winter protection plan guards broad leaf evergreens from the burning effects caused by winter's harsh winds. This protection is essential for Hollies, Laurels, Rhododendrons and Southern Magnolias.
Deep Root fertilization
A custom-made special blend of essential nutrients, trace metals, organic matter, and root growth enhancers that is injected directly into a tree's root system. This application is very important in restoring the health of trees in decline and in helping them survive drought periods, Your plants will develop an increased root system resulting in fuller blooms and enhanced color. This is a wonderful product with guaranteed noticeable results - especially beneficial for plantssuch as maples, fruittrees, azaleas and rhododendrons. Pricingis determined by the amount of product injected (Applied March - November, composition of fertilizer changes according to the season).
Lawn Aeration
This important services relieves soil compaction which can weaken and suffocate your lawn. Aeration stimulates new root growth, allows greater air penetration and increases water filteration into the soil. Pricing is determined by job size (serviced in spring or fall).
* Each scout visit consists of a thorough examination of the plant specimens on your property to catch potential problems before they become evident to the homeowner. All scout visits are provided free of charge.
Mauget® Injectibles
Sterling Tree & Lawn may utilize a vast array of injectable products produced by Mauget® and others. These injection based services have been developed as a result of extensive research with many universities and federal and state agencies such as USDA-Forest Service. These Micro-Injections mitigate damage to your trees caused by insects, micro-organisms, soil pollutants, air pollutants and nutritional deficiencies. Injections help us to treat trees that may not be sprayable due to site conditions such as; trees overhanging pools, ponds, kennels, etc.
Some of the many tools at our Disposal. These are some of the common tools that our certified arborists have as resources in our arsenal for the health of your properties' plantings. A partial list of the pests that they control is also included.