Spring into Action: How to Get Your Trees Ready for the Growing Season

March 1, 2023 12:00 pm
Dennis Swartzell

Arborist – Horticulturist

Spring is just around the corner and you still have time to get your trees ready for the growing season.  The steps you take today toward improving the health of your trees will pay off tremendously in the Spring and Summer.

In this Training Series episode Dennis Swartzell, principal of Horticulture Consultants Incorporated, a consulting firm founded in 1979 that specializes in diagnostics and troubleshooting, landscape assessments, tree inventories, preservation, and management programs will step us through some basic steps to take with your trees to ensure a successful growing season.

During this webinar, you will learn the following:

  1. How to make sure our trees have the correct nutrition before the season starts
  2. If pruning is appropriate before the season starts
  3. What to do for trees to help them battle the high winds
  4. Learn how to know if there is salt in the soil and what to do about it.
  5. Should you paint your tree trucks
  6. How to get ahead of insects before the season starts
Dennis Swartzell

Arborist – Horticulturist

Dennis is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture with an emphasis in Floriculture. He is a Board-Certified Master Arborist.

Dennis’ previous experience includes greenhouse manager, park superintendent, arboretum and landscape director for UNLV, adjunct faculty member for the College of Southern Nevada, and marketing director for a large regional nursery, wholesale nursery broker and consulting arborist.

He is a principal of Horticulture Consultants Incorporated, a consulting firm founded in 1979 that specializes in diagnostics and troubleshooting, landscape assessments, tree inventories, preservation, and management programs.

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