Sandee Reid, Davey’s vice president of corporate communications and strategic planning, talks about Davey’s partnership with the Cleveland Guardians and why reestablishing the tree canopy is so important.

In this episode we cover:

• What is Swing for the Trees? (0:46)
• Which trees are planted through the program? (1:18)
• Where are the trees planted? (2:00)
• How the partnership began (2:32)
• Earth Week Sponsorship (3:42)
• Sandee's ceremonial first pitch (5:28)
• Why the Guardians? (5:45)
• Davey's other sports partnerships (6:50)
• Davey's excitement for home runs and plantings (7:40)
• When plantings occur (8:23)
• The importance of tree canopies (9:07)
• The legacy of trees (10:05)
• Sandee's Davey Tree journey (11:56)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.

To learn more about the Swing for the Trees partnership, read our press releases about the program.

Connect with Davey Tree on social media:
Twitter: @DaveyTree
Facebook: @DaveyTree
Instagram: @daveytree
YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
LinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company

Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com.

Have topics you'd like us to cover on the podcast? Email us at podcasts@davey.com. We want to hear from you!

Aaron Hoot from Davey's Dallas office talks about preventative tree healthcare, common problems that can be prevented and the importance of treating emerald ash borer on trees.

In this episode we cover:

• Girdling roots (0:45)
• Proper planting practices (2:43))
• Looking for distress signals (4:25)
• Preventing emerald ash borer (6:13)
• How arborists conduct preventative checkups (10:35)
• Mistletoe pruning (17:57)
• How Aaron became an arborist (20:39)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.

To learn more about protecting your tree against emerald ash borer, read our blog, Protect Your Ash Trees: Spot the Early Signs of EAB.

To learn more about root girdling, read our blog, It Looks Like the Roots are Strangling My Tree.

To learn more about mistletoe in trees, read our blog, Mistletoe in Trees.

Connect with Davey Tree on social media:
Twitter: @DaveyTree
Facebook: @DaveyTree
Instagram: @daveytree
YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
LinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company

Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com.

Have topics you'd like us to cover on the podcast? Email us at podcasts@davey.com. We want to hear from you!

Josh Fritz from Hartney Greymont, a Davey company, in the Boston North Shore office, talks about Doug's dying oak forest and how he can slowly replace the trees that have succumbed to oak wilt, as well as why planting a diversity of species in your landscape is so important.

In this episode we cover:

• Planting diversity (0:35)
• Street trees (2:03)
• What to replace a Bradford pear with (3:39)
• Replacing Doug's oak forest (5:32)
• Understory trees (7:25)
• Spring planting in Boston (8:51)
• Evergreens for forested areas (10:44)
• Red buds (12:43)
• Winter in Boston (14:19)
• Sugar maples (15:38)
• A tree Josh wishes was planted more (16:35)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.

To learn more about Oak trees read our blogs Tree Identification: Do I Have An Oak Tree? or Avoid Pruning Oak Trees in Summer – Oak Wilt Causes

To learn more about evergreens, check our blog page.

Connect with Davey Tree on social media:
Twitter: @DaveyTree
Facebook: @DaveyTree
Instagram: @daveytree
YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
LinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company

Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com.

Have topics you'd like us to cover on the podcast? Email us at podcasts@davey.com. We want to hear from you!