West Chicago Park District
West Chicago Park District
Jesse is the Superintendant of Parks in West Chicago. Over the past 20 years, he has managed and maintained the grounds of 11 parks, and 2000 trees. Growing up on the grounds of Cantigny, where his father managed the grounds, Jesse developed a love for trees and landscaping. He is always busy, one of the hardest workers you will see.
Over the years, we have performed all aspects of tree care for Jesse in his parks. Aside from the usual pruning, removal, sprays and root feedings, we have put on periodic training sessions for his employees. This professional training has encompassed chainsaw and chipper safety, climbing, bucket truck usuage and more recently, insect and disease identification. Also this spring we did an entire tree inventory of the parks, recording data on 2000 trees. GPS coordinates on every tree were recorded along with species, size, and condition. Other importat data was collected on the Ash trees in order to begin making our EAB Action Plan.
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EAB Update
Many of you have been wondering if we will need to treat your Ash trees earlier this year. As soon as the Ash trees fully leaf out, and uptake is strong, we will be out treating trees. As usual we can't wait for leaf out to unveil some tremendous success stories with your Ash trees.
Gold Service
Gold Service customers names will go into a drawing to win a free landscape lighting demo kit from our sister company, Moonscape Landscape Illumination. Names will be drawn at the Wasco Nursery Open House April 21st.
PHC Alerts
Keep in mind that Pine and Spruce trees, and all evergreens are under tremendous stress to begin this year. These trees desiccate year round, and with warm temperatures, abundant sunshine, and low soil moisture, we believe these trees are under stress already. Root feeding and proper watering will be more important than ever this season.
Fungicides are now complete on Crab Apples and Hawthorns, as well as the first insecticide spray for Pine Moth. In the coming weeks, we will be spraying fungicides on Pine and Spruce for fungal diseases such as Diplodia Tip Blight and Rhizospheara Needle Cast.