Tree Planting in Lafayette, LA

Tree Planting in Lafayette, Louisiana

 Trees add value to our homes, provide shade during the hot summer months, and help to attract and maintain a healthy balance of local wildlife. Adding new beautiful trees to your landscape is an exciting task. It is important to address a few key factors that should be kept in mind when trying to plant a new tree. If some of these Key factors are ignored, you can find yourself with issues piling up in the future as the tree begins to grow and spread. We want to help you avoid these situations by providing you with an extensive, in depth analysis and instruction on how to go about adding new trees to your property. 

It is important to first assess the surrounding areas and figure out what species will thrive in the local environment. Doing so can ensure that you select a tree that will grow strong and healthy throughout its life time. It is also important to have a basic understanding of local diseases that can spread through trees in the local areas, so that you know how to stay prepared and perform regular upkeep for your trees. Diseases like citrus canker can spread throughout the vegetation in our city, and cause trees to become weak and susceptible to infestation. We aim to help ensure that your selection is an educated one, so that you don't have to deal with unwanted and potentially expensive issues in the future. Some of the best local trees that thrive in Lafayette include:

• Baldcypress
• Southern Live Oak
• Crape Myrtles
• Deciduous Oaks
• Southern Sugar Maples
• Hollies
• Vitex
• Sweetbay Magnolias
• Southern Magnolias

It is also important to assess the best time of year to plant trees. It is a known fact that January is the best time of year to plant trees in Louisiana. That is why the states designated Arbor Day is the third Friday of January. Generally speaking, fall through winter is the best time in Louisiana to add trees to your landscape. In the fall, trees slow their growth. Less of the food that plants generate through photosynthesis is being spread around to the leaves and branches, and more of this food is designated toward the root systems, allowing them to grow strong and healthy into the ground and stabilize their hold on the earth. It is important to have a properly trained ISA certified arborist help you address these small details when plotting to add trees to your landscape so you can make an educated decision about planting. Live oaks, for instance, grow to have a very wide spread, so it is important to keep this in mind when planting one that may grow to invade buildings or roadways. Contact Tree Service of Lafayette today to get a free estimate and begin planning your next addition with one of our certified experts.

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