Year-round monitoring, targeted pest and disease care, and fertilization built for Florida sandy soils. Done by ISA Certified Arborists who scout the tree before they sell you a treatment.
Most plant health care is sold as a calendar of pre-paid sprays — show up, treat everything, send the bill. We do the opposite. Every program starts with an ISA Certified Arborist walking the property, identifying the trees, scouting for actual pest and disease pressure, and pulling soil samples where the data will change the plan.
Then — and only then — we treat. With the lowest-impact tool that will actually solve the problem. Same ethos as the rest of what we do: we will tell you when a tree does not need treatment, the same way we tell you when one does not need to come down.
The pests and diseases your trees actually face — named, with the early symptoms our crew is trained to catch on the spring scout.
Phytoplasma disease vectored by planthoppers. Confirmed in 36 FL counties. Queens, sabal palms, and Canary date palms are most vulnerable. Symptom: lowest fronds bronze and die upward, fruit drops early. Symptomatic palms cannot be saved — but nearby healthy palms can be protected.
Stress-driven decline of mature live oaks — root damage, soil compaction, fill dirt over the root zone, or drought. Symptom: thinning upper canopy and dieback over multiple seasons. Often reversible if caught early.
The workaday pests. Untreated, they weaken the tree until disease moves in. We scout for them, identify by species, and treat only when populations cross a threshold worth treating — not on a calendar.
A trunk-base fungus that kills palms from the ground up. There is no cure. The job is correct ID, removal of infected palms before fruiting bodies (conks) release more spores, and protecting nearby palms by not moving infected debris.
Ambrosia-beetle-vectored fungus that kills red bays, swampbays, and avocados — sometimes in a single season. High-value trees in active areas can be protected with preventive systemic injection of propiconazole.
Florida sandy soils have near-zero capacity to hold nutrients — fertilizer leaches in days. Symptoms: pale or yellowed leaves, interveinal chlorosis on oaks, frizzletop on palms. The fix is targeted deep-root feeding on a cadence FL soil actually responds to.
Built around the seasons your trees actually live through — and the county ordinances that shape when we can fertilize.
ISA Certified Arborist walks the property, identifies every tree of value, scouts for pest and disease pressure, and pulls soil samples where the data will change the treatment plan. You get a written plan before anything is sprayed, injected, or invoiced.
If — and only if — scouting confirms a problem worth treating, we apply the right intervention: deep root fertilization, systemic trunk injection, a precise foliar spray, soil amendment. We pick the lowest-impact tool that actually works.
Many Central FL counties prohibit nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer applications June 1 – Sept 30 to protect waterways from rainy-season runoff. We monitor enrolled trees during this window, catch problems before they escalate, and queue up the fall plan.
Once county ordinances allow it, we fertilize for root growth heading into the dormant season — the most productive feeding window for FL trees. Sanitation pruning of diseased wood, structural pruning where it benefits health, and an end-of-year property re-walk close out the year.
What is in the truck, and when each one is the right call. Modern arboriculture, no calendar-blast spraying.
Liquid feed injected 6–8 inches below grade in a 2–3 foot grid pattern under and just past the dripline. Bypasses competing turf, breaks soil compaction, and delivers nutrients where the feeder roots actually live.
Small ports drilled into the trunk; formula moves up through the vascular system. Used for lethal bronzing prevention (OTC), borer/scale control, manganese or iron correction. Roughly a tenth of the chemical of a foliar spray, with no drift.
Integrated Pest Management — the modern professional standard. Regular inspections, species-level ID, and treatment only when population density crosses a threshold worth treating. The opposite of a blanket spray calendar.
Compost, biochar, and mycorrhizal inoculants for compacted construction sites, fill-dirt root zones, and chronically depleted soils. Real soil chemistry, not a bag of generic granular fertilizer.
Selective removal of diseased wood — anthracnose, fire blight, hypoxylon-cankered limbs — with tool disinfection between cuts. Stops the spread, keeps the tree.
Florida soils have low cation exchange capacity — nutrients flush through in days. The fix is more frequent, lighter feeding tuned to the species, not the "one big spring blast" of mainland landscaping.
Many Central FL counties (Orange, Seminole, and others) prohibit nitrogen and phosphorus applications June 1 – Sept 30 to protect waterways. We build the program around that — out-of-state corporate brands often miss it.
Wind-damaged trees can decline 6–18 months after the storm passes. Post-storm structural pruning, deep watering, and monitoring through the next season catches that delayed decline before the tree is lost.
We deliver plant health care from our Apopka, FL base across the greater Orlando area:
Both work, but we strongly favor the annual program. Most plant health care is preventive, and a single visit can only solve what is already obvious. Our program runs on the FL seasonal calendar: spring scouting and soil sampling, summer monitoring (during the county fertilizer blackout), and fall fertilization once the rainy-season restrictions lift. One-time fertilization or targeted treatment is available when that is what the tree actually needs.
It depends on tree count, species, and what we find. Deep root fertilization is typically priced per tree; the annual program is priced per property based on the initial scout. We do free property walks and put everything in writing before any treatment — no surprises and no "you should pre-pay for the whole year of sprays."
Sometimes — and sometimes the honest answer is no. Many declines are reversible with the right intervention started early: oak decline driven by soil compaction, scale infestations, drought stress, manganese or iron deficiency. Others are not: advanced lethal bronzing in palms, Ganoderma butt rot, severe internal decay. An ISA Certified Arborist assessment will tell you which side of that line your tree is on, and we will not sell you treatment for a tree that cannot be saved.
Yes. IPM-first means we treat only when scouting confirms a problem above threshold — and when we treat, we pick the targeted, lowest-impact option. Horticultural oils, biological controls, soil amendments, and systemic trunk injection (which uses roughly a tenth of the chemical of a foliar spray and stays inside the tree, with no drift) are part of our standard kit.
If a palm is symptomatic — bronzing fronds advancing up the crown, spear leaf collapse — it cannot be saved. UF/IFAS is unambiguous about this, and removal is the only way to stop the disease from spreading to nearby healthy palms. Those nearby palms, however, can be protected with oxytetracycline (OTC) trunk injections every 3–4 months for at least 2 years. That preventive protocol is one of the most common reasons Central Florida palm owners hire us.
