If you’re looking for a company that hangs Christmas and holiday lights in Denver, Mountain High Tree, Lawn and Landscape has you covered! Mountain High Specialty Lighting will design a personalized lighting display for your business or home. We offer a wide variety of commercial and home holiday lighting solutions and will work with you to customize the look you want. […]
Tree Top Times
Fireblight & Dutch Elm Disease in Denver
Fall is the best time of year to prune trees that have related pathogens. Fireblight and Dutch Elm disease are two diseases that have to be taken care of in the dormant season. Fireblight: Many homeowners see the effects of fireblight in the summer time and become anxious to do something about it, but unfortunately, […]
Weed Control in Denver
Weeds aren’t just a spring and summer annoyance. Not only do most existing weeds continue to grow through fall, some weeds actually sprout best in autumn’s cooling temperatures. Weeds this year have been particularly bad. Much of this is because of the weather pattern of an early spring with lots of moisture followed by rapidly […]
Pine and Spruce Trees Losing Needles in the Fall
Fall Needlecast on Pine and Spruce trees In the fall, we start receiving calls from our concerned customers about their Pine and Spruce trees “turning brown”. This needle browning occurs every fall and is normal as long as the tissue that is changing color is the older needle tissue and not the current year’s growth. […]
Japanese Beetle update in Denver
The Japanese Beetle appears to have become a resident of Colorado, and more specifically in the southern metro area. Through our monitoring program, we have already surpassed the captured population of 2012 up to early August. With the recent rainfall, and a surplus of susceptible plant material, it is reasonable to expect the population will […]
Water and Fertilizing Your Trees in Denver
Water and fertilize your trees. As we drive around town, we continue to see the lasting effects of the difficult spring weather conditions. Many trees like our Ash and Locust are struggling to produce a leaf canopy capable of providing a shadow, let alone actual shade. A variety of shrubs including Altheas, Roses, Grape Holly […]
Stressed Out Trees in Denver
Our Trees are stressed out! The extremely dry winters these past two years in combination with the unseasonably warm temperatures this spring have us concerned about the health of our trees around town. Even with the recent rainfall, many of our trees are not going to make it. Take a drive around town and you […]
Storm Damaged Trees in Denver
This week rain, hail and wind damaged homes and stripped our trees. Here are some things to think about when looking at your storm damaged trees: Trees are amazingly resilient. Don’t cut them down, thinking they are dead. Give them time to recover! If they are healthy they will put out a new set of […]
Leaf Fungi in Denver
Only in Colorado will a record period of drought be followed up by a period of rain not seen in decades. The month of May gave parts of the metro area more than four inches of rain. In fact, a few areas in Aurora and Littleton recorded nearly six inches of rain. That is almost […]
Monitoring Your Sprinkler System
Monitoring your sprinkler system will save your turf and plants, as well as save you money. Every homeowner in Colorado knows the challenge of maintaining a healthy landscape. The limited natural rainfall in Colorado gives us the pleasantly dry climate in the summer time, but it wreaks havoc on the health of our plants. Many […]