Landscaping Services

Tree and Shrub Planting

The arborists at Maier Tree & Lawn have the extensive knowledge needed to know which trees and shrubs will work best for your yard. Their knowledge and expertise provide unrivaled services and support to care for the health, beauty, function, and safety of the plants in your yard. With the help of our arborists’ advice, we can help you achieve your goals of completing and maintaining a landscape that brings beauty to your urban landscape and joy to all who visit.

Proper planning for the correct planting locations for your trees and shrubs can increase the longevity of your plants. Allowing us to be a part of the planning process from the beginning can prevent years of heartache. Don’t leave the beauty and health of your plants to chance; let us help from the start.

The professional arborists at Maier Tree & Lawn can help to ensure trees and shrubs are planted correctly so they provide long-term beauty and benefits to your yard. Making the investment to ensure trees and shrubs are planted correctly can actually save you money. By taking into account what trees and shrubs need to achieve optimal growth and health in the future, you can avoid mistakes and potential problems that could result in the need for extensive maintenance, or worse, tree removal.

Once you’ve planted your trees and shrubs, proper maintenance is important, and part of that maintenance is pruning. Pruning is done to clean your trees and shrubs of dead or diseased branches. For trees, it can be done for vertical clearance, allowing trees to grow taller instead of wider. Reducing is the pruning of trees or shrubs to keep them from growing taller or wider. Having pruning conducted by a certified arborist can safely improve the structure of your trees and ensure they stay strong for years to come.

Sometimes, regardless of how well you take care of your trees and shrubs, they can begin to look wilted or sick. What then? We have the training and education needed to properly diagnose any insect infestations or diseases. With the help of our arborists, a treatment course can be recommended to keep your trees and shrubs looking beautiful and healthy.

With adequate moisture and favorable soil temperatures, everything, from flowers to trees, will experience better root growth. Other positive effects of proper mulching include improved soil structure due to less compaction, excellent weed control, and offering a supportive environment for beneficial soil microbes.

While mulch is available in an array of colors, textures, and materials, using the proper type of mulch for a landscape project is important, and understanding how much should be applied is crucial to the health and survival of the landscape plants. There is a wide variety of mulch products available on the market, but one needs to know what the differences are and if a particular mulch will benefit or hurt the plants it surrounds.

It’s also possible to apply too much or too little mulch for a particular landscape application. Should you lay mulch over a tree’s root ball? Is it okay to layer the mulch right up against the base of the tree? How many inches of mulch should you use for a newly planted tree? Is that amount different for an established tree? How far from the tree should the mulch extend? Our professionals can determine the best types of mulch to suit your tree and landscaping needs and, by using various colors and textures, help create an easily maintainable and visually appealing, inviting environment.

While it may appear to be a simple task to go out and buy a tree or shrub from a nursery or big-box store, bring it home, dig a hole, drop it in, and fill in the hole, in reality, it takes a bit more effort than that! Proper placement of a new tree or shrub is crucial to the long-term health and well-being of the plant. For trees, if you’re planting multiple trees, or just adding a tree in a yard that already has a few trees in it, correct spacing between trees is critical. While that spindly stick doesn’t look like it’ll pose much of a problem when you plant it, in several years it will grow taller and the branches will spread out to create a beneficial canopy of shade. If trees are too close together, they will grow into one another, and this can cause structural problems that can end up harming all the trees involved.

The same can be said for shrubs. Correct spacing for proper growth and spread is dependent on the species. You must also take into account potential barriers and constraints.

Another crucial concern when planting a tree or shrub is ensuring it is planted at the proper depth. The general rule is to dig a hole that is two times the width of the root ball and no deeper than the root flare to the bottom of the root ball. The root ball is the mass of roots, generally wrapped in fabric, directly beneath the main stem or trunk. The tree or shrub’s root flare (also known as the root collar) should be level with, or slightly above, the soil grade. This is done to ensure the root flare doesn’t get buried. When the root flare is buried, the plant’s roots are deprived of sufficient oxygen, which can eventually kill the tree or shrub.

Landscape Maintenance

Not only does your landscaping keep your house looking its best, but it’s also an important part of a complex ecosystem. It’s critical during landscape maintenance that this complex ecosystem be kept in mind. For those living in the Rochester, MN area, Maier Tree & Lawn is the place to turn for all your landscape maintenance needs.

Our approach to proper landscape maintenance is based on science and practice. We start with the soil, the all-important material that nourishes the root systems. Our recommendations are proven to improve the soil and keep your plants healthy.

Landscape maintenance also includes many services that are required to ensure a landscape environment remains healthy and supportive to the plants within. As the growing season approaches in the spring and reaches its finale in the fall, it’s important to have landscape beds cleaned to promote the best growth. This includes removing dead foliage, using a blower to remove leaves and trash from the bed, cutting low perennials, and ridding the bed of those pesky “woody volunteers” that pop-up from all the maple and elm seeds that seem to endlessly shower and blow about.

During the growing season, to ensure plants are kept healthy and well-maintained, we’ll conduct services such as pruning, sheering, and other aesthetic services to keep everything looking fresh, well-trimmed, and vibrant. You can count on Maier Tree & Lawn to ensure your valuable landscaping is cared for carefully, safely, and correctly.

SHRUB REMOVAL

When someone thinks of the word “shrub,” a small, woody type of plant usually comes to mind. In reality, a shrub can be anything as tall as a small tree and have multiple stems, which, in some cases, can make shrub removal a difficult task! Whether it’s small and decorative or several feet in diameter and height, proper shrub removal tactics need to be considered.

If it’s a case of a shrub becoming too large to manage or it’s a “volunteer” that has simply outlasted and outgrown its welcome, at times it may be necessary to remove a shrub from your yard or landscaping. While it may appear to be an easy DIY project, sometimes it requires quite a bit more than simply cutting it off at the ground and thinking you’re done! Some varieties put down deep roots, and if the shrub isn’t removed correctly, it will simply grow back.

Correctly identifying the shrub to be removed is crucial to understanding the methods that will result in the best extraction of the plant. Another consideration is whether there are other plants near the shrub and how the removal process should be performed to not cause them damage.

Maier Tree & Lawn can perform this task for you and get it done in a way that’s safe for your lawn, landscaping, and other surrounding vegetation. Our trained and certified staff will start by examining and identifying the shrub, carefully studying the ground and any other plants near the shrub, and creating a plan for its proper removal. We will also dispose of the shrub, and, depending on your needs, either fill in the hole or plant a replacement shrub.

When it comes to the best in professional landscaping services in the Rochester, MN area, contact Maier Tree & Lawn today.