Importance of Diversity in the Landscape and Planting to Replace

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! Click here to send Talking Trees Fan Mail!