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Fire Pit Design

Enjoy more of the outdoors by creating your own outdoor fire pit! Customizing your own fire pit design to fit your backyard is easy and fun. Here are some of the best fire pit design ideas we have found.

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Fire Pits for Spacious Backyards

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Adding a fire pit to your spacious backyard is a great way to break up the large space. We love how a stone walkway leads from the house’s back patio to a fire pit. This is the perfect space to host summer cocktail hour!

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The fire pit featured on the Morning Chores blog is a great example of how creativity can create the perfect design. Mapping out a circular section, these homeowners cultivated the perfect outdoor seating area for their fire pit.

Fire Pits for Small Backyards

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It’s not the amount of space you have, it’s how you use it! This beautiful backyard design, as seen in Better Homes and Gardens, is a great example of how you can transform your small space to incorporate your vision.

Firewood: Burn Where You Buy

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Westchester Tree Life would like to remind you to purchase firewood which will be burned within a 50 mile radius. Moving firewood can result in the spread of an infestation of an invasive insect or disease. For more information, read our blog “Don’t Move Firewood” here.

Outdoor Tree Decorating Service

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Westchester Tree Life is offering outdoor tree decorating service this holiday season! Whether you are looking to light the trees in the front of your Westchester home or business, we can help! Call Westchester Tree Life today to schedule your outdoor tree decorating service: (914) 238-0069

Call (914) 238-0069 today to schedule your outdoor holiday tree decorating service!

Community Sing, Tree Lighting & Historic Crafts Workshop

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This year, Westchester Tree Life participated in the Community Sing, Tree Lighting and Historic Crafts Workshop in Chappaqua, New York! We teamed up with the New Castle Historical Society of Chappaqua to assist with the tree lighting for a fun community event. We were excited to see so many families come out for this cozy celebration in Westchester.

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Call Westchester Tree Life today to reserve the time you would like our team to come out to light your tree(s). Simply tell us your design goals and our team will do their best to make your holiday vision come true!

Anti-Desiccant Spray

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Westchester county arborists Westchester Tree Life want to ensure your trees are healthy throughout the upcoming winter. Protect your broadleaf evergreens from winter desiccation with anti-desiccant spray!

About Desiccation or Winter Burn

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Winter desiccation, also known as “winter burn” is a common plant injury which occurs once the amount of water lost by the foliage has exceeded the amount absorbed by the roots.

Symptoms of Winter Desiccation

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Symptoms of winter desiccation include the browning and discoloration of leaves, as well as leaf spots. These visible signs of damage are linked directly to harsh environmental conditions. If the damage from winter desiccation is extensive, the tree or shrub’s leaves will drop.

Protect Your Broadleaf Evergreens with Anti-Desiccant Spray

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The solution to ensuring the health of your beautiful broadleaf evergreens is anti-desiccant spray! Westchester Tree Life’s professionally trained arborists can apply anti-desiccant spray to your broadleaf evergreens, trees and shrubs before the cold weather strikes. Anti-desiccant spray is the perfect way to maintain the moisture-level of your broadleaf evergreens throughout dry, brisk weather.

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Contact Westchester Tree Life today to schedule your anti-desiccant spraying! Ask about our plant health care program and how it can help you. Request a consultation online here or call Westchester county’s leading arborists, Westchester Tree Life at (914) 238-0069.

Summer Landscape Checklist

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Maintaining a beautiful and healthy lawn this summer is easy with our summer landscape checklist! Our team of professionally trained arborists are here to assist you with any chores you have on your summer landscape checklist. To request an online consultation, click here.

Prune Trees & Shrubs

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Summertime is the ideal time to prune trees and shrubs! Removing dead, damaged and diseased branches from your trees helps to prevent insect and decay from infecting your tree. The thinning of a dense tree canopy increases the tree’s airflow and sunlight, which results in fewer diseases and maladies. Properly pruning your trees and shrubs can be tricky, if you’ve never done it before; call Westchester Tree Life at (914) 238-0069 to schedule a pruning service.

Landscaping

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Keep your lawn looking it’s best with landscaping services this summer. Taking the time to map out your yard’s landscape will keep maintenance streamlined and stress-free. If you are unable to maintain a neatly manicured landscape, schedule landscaping services!

Remove Tree Stumps

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Tree stumps can be an eyesore. Westchester Tree Life has the equipment and professional training to safely remove tree stumps! Removing a tree stump will make all the difference to your landscape!

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St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church’s Christmas Tree 2014

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Westchester Tree Life recently donated time to help decorate St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church’s Christmas tree for Christmas 2014 in Armonk, New York!

The following article was featured in St. Stephen’s Weekly Touchstone e-mail:

Our Newly Lit Christmas Tree

We have been getting compliments from parishioners and residents on our beautifully lit Christmas tree. We have Westchester Tree Life, LLC of Chappaqua to thank. In the spirit of holiday giving, they donated the men, bucket truck, and considerable time to completely wrap our Blue Spruce tree with new multi-colored, energy-efficient, LED Christmas lights. Vestry members Laura Desmarais and Trina Fontaine had been exploring different ways to replace the old lights that had either burned-out or were deeply hidden inside the tree’s canopy by years of branch growth, but were finding costs prohibitive.

Hearing about the church’s need, Remington Arnold, a co-owner of Westchester Tree Life, LLC, volunteered his company’s services as a way to give back to a community that has been so supportive of his business over the years. “Rem” (as everyone calls him), remarked at the completion of the job, “The tree now looks like what a Christmas tree is suppose to look like … something of beauty, something that glows brilliantly in the night, and something that hopefully makes people feel happy when they gaze upon it.”

We extend our sincere gratitude to Westchester Tree Life, LLC, “Rem”, and the two employees who worked tirelessly at dizzying heights, decorating our church’s iconic tree. We are especially touched that a local business made time in their busy holiday tree work schedule to accommodate us on such short notice. We invite one and all to come view our beautiful Christmas tree!

How To Spot A Dangerous Tree

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Knowing how to spot a dangerous tree may help prevent property damage or injury. A healthy, mature tree can account for a minimum of 10% of your property value. Westchester Tree Life is here to assist you in keeping your trees healthy and vibrant. Call Westchester Tree Life as soon as you spot a dangerous tree.

Here is our guide to explain how to spot a dangerous tree:

Spotting a dangerous tree can prevent injury and property damage.

1. Crown Symptoms: Dead Wood & Broken Branches

First, inspect your tree for dead wood. Dead wood, or dead branches, tend to be barren; if there are leaves on the dead branches, the leaves will be brown. If the branch has been dead for a long time, it will be stripped of it’s bark. Checking the “V” where your tree’s branches connect to the trunk for signs of weakness is also important when searching for dead wood.

2. Decay

Places on you tree’s trunk where there is no bark can indicate a dead section of the tree or a fungus attack. Once you have noticed that your tree has been affected by decay, call Westchester Tree Life to assess your tree’s health.

Mushroom-like fungal growth sitting on or near your tree’s trunk is an indication of decay. To determine if your tree is in danger of falling, or infected with decay, reach out to Westchester Tree Life’s Team of professional arborists!

3. Cracks & Divisions

Searching for cracks and divisions is a key when assessing your tree’s health. The entire tree is susceptible to breaking if there is a damaging enough crack in the trunk. A professional arborist is able to determine how extensive the damage is, and create a plan of action for your tree.

4. Root Problems

Your tree’s health begins in the foundation of the tree’s roots. A tree is held up and supported by anchoring roots, which are thick and large, while the smaller roots of the tree absorb water and nutrients from the soil. Ensuring your tree has a healthy root system is key in maintaining a healthy tree.

5. Leaning

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If your tree is leaning to one side, it may be a result of a root problem. If the anchoring roots are rotted, they may be lifting from the soil due to weakness.

Do you think you may have a dangerous tree around the vicinity of your home or business? Westchester Tree Life, located in Chappaqua, New York is here to help!

Call us today: (914) 238-0069