Update for the Winter Holidays

While we enjoyed the beautiful fall foliage brought to us by fall season, the winter is finally here. Our trees have to survive the cold temperature.

We hope you all are enjoying the beautiful tress that we supplied and planted at your residents. While trees add lots of beauty and provides shade to your property, however, when they are dying or broken or falling they cause lots of problems such as pest attraction, they look ugly and they could fall on houses since they are not strong anymore.

We wish a very happy holiday season and a peaceful and prosperous new year!

We appreciate your kind donation and we hope to keep serving our community.

Face masks can stop you from spreading COVID-19 to others even if you do not feel sick. The cloth face cover is meant to protect other people in case you are infected. We dare add that wearing the face mask is a symbol of love for one another.

We are providing up to 10 reusable, cloth, face masks to families in our county. Just contact us and you can pick up your supplies on Thursdays and Saturdays.

Winter and tree survival:
It is amazing how trees withstand the harsh winter and freezing temperature. Most animals migrate to warmer temperature for them to survive but trees do not migrate but rather device ways to survive the freezing temperature. This brings us to the questions -

a) How do winter trees survive?
Trees have bark that varies in color, density and texture which protect them from extreme cold temperature. The tree bark is similar to our skin that act as protection against cold temperature by conserving heat.
Trees retain moisture for survival by dropping their leaves to reduce transpiration particularly, trees that have broad leaves (deciduous trees) while those that have narrow leaves (conifers) retain their leaves.

b) Can trees freeze to death during winter?
Sometimes trees may not be able to tolerate the freezing temperature, they will burst open and explode. That is right! I know this is an eye opener for many people. The tree sap can be frozen at extreme cold temperature beyond the tree tolerant. As the tree sap freezes, it expands thereby adding pressure on the bark of the tree which results to explosion.

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