Bobby Savage – Certified Arborist Check Bobby out at the climbing competition to be held in Colorado Springs on June 13th! I am a Colorado native where I spent most of my youth skiing and camping with my dad. I attended an outward bound program through my teenage years which is when I fell in love […]
Tree Top Times
Mother Nature isn’t done yet!
Lawn Insects and Lawn Fungi Are at a Near Record High This Spring: The moisture we have received in the month of May combined with the resulting high humidity in the Denver Metro Area has created multiple environmental problems for lawns. Lawn diseases are abnormally active because of the moisture conditions and long term wet […]
Mother’s Day Weather Alert – Tips to avoid freeze damage!
MOTHER’S DAY WEATHER ALERT! LOVE THE COLORADO WEATHER, IT WILL RAIN, IT MIGHT SNOW OR EVEN HAIL! Here are some tips to keep your plants, trees and sprinkler systems in good shape! Trees: If it does snow, it will be a wet heavy snow. The best thing to do is shake your tree limbs to […]
Plant stress throughout the Denver Metro Area
Trees Plant Stress throughout the Denver Metro Area Many of our trees and shrubs continue to show stress from the weather conditions of the past winter. Several species of shrubs have been slow to shed last year’s leaves, and even slower to push out new growth this spring. During our travels throughout the Metro Area, […]
May Lawn Tips
Lawn Lee’s May Lawn Tips: We are right around the corner from the cooler spring weather changing over to the heat of the summer. Here are a few things home owners can do and should know about their lawns. Watering: Most lawns in our area consist of cool-season lawn grasses such as Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, and fine fescue. […]
IN CELEBRATION OF EARTH DAY
Happy Earth Day to William Roberts School at 2100 Akron Way in the Stapleton area. They were the recipients of an Earth Day remodel. The ALCC organized this project in conjunction with a grant from the Home and Garden Show and mulch that was donated by Mountain High Tree, Lawn & Landscape Co. Many other […]
Get to know us – Jaime Astorga!
Jaime Astorga is a great person to work with, he always has a smile and a good word for you! Don’t you love working with people like that? Maybe that is why Jaime has worked for Mountain High Tree since 1998. Jaime “loves to climb trees” and is really superb at what he does. Jaime has […]
What to look for when purchasing plants
Understanding what to look for when selecting plant material can make the difference between a healthy tree or shrub and one that will struggle or die. Typically the smaller the plant, the less you have to look for. When it comes to smaller one or two gallon plants, you should be looking for firm, consistently colored foliage […]
Denver Mulch Donation to Community Garden in Montclair
Despite the snowy foggy morning, we just delivered 10 yards of donated mulch to a Community Garden in Denver’s Montclair neighborhood this morning – check out the steamy delivery! This is our classic “natural” mulch that is locally-made with the clippings from our tree pruning jobs. We age and rotate our mulch to fully sanitize […]
What Coloradans Need To Know About Emerald Ash Borer
Here is a good article from KUNC.org about how Coloradans can help prevent the spread of the devastating Emerald Ash Borer, here’s an excerpt: As spring weather gets warmer and plants start to bloom, it’s also the time for insects living within Colorado trees to awaken and emerge. One of these in particular, the invasive, […]