Healthy plants are essential to the beauty and longevity of any landscape. Residential, commercial, or municipal landscapes may serve different purposes, but their landscapes can all benefit from sustainable plant health care services from knowledgeable professionals.
Yet, the benefits of professional plant health care extend beyond maintaining beautiful properties. By partnering with experienced arborists, property owners can minimize their labor, increase safety, prevent plant diseases, and more.
This blog focuses on the long-term benefits of plant health care and aims to help property owners recognize the steps needed to make the most of their beautiful landscapes.
What is Professional Plant Health Care?
Many property owners think of professional plant health care as a service limited to aesthetic pruning, watering and mowing, and occasional tree removals. While these services are usually offered, professional plant care is far more comprehensive. Arborists and plant health experts offer strategies for long-term plant well-being and regular maintenance. This type of care is not a one-time service but an investment in long-term landscape health, safety, and value.
How Professional Plant Health Care Benefits Property Owners
These are the essential benefits that lead so many property owners to seek and retain professional plant care experts:
#1 Cost and Time Savings
With proper plant care and maintenance, property owners can save time and money on their landscaping efforts. Professional arborists can follow their customized maintenance plan without further guidance, watering, pruning, fertilizing, inspecting, and more. Professionals also bring their own specialty tools, which many novice landscapers and owners may not have. This leads to more time and money savings while making sure the plants get the care they deserve.
#2 Safety Improvements
Professional plant health care experts customize care plans for each property, leading to healthier and more resilient plants. Regardless of the plant species or its specific needs, professionals can adjust their soil improvement, fertilization, pruning, mulching, aeration, and watering strategies to suit them.
Over the long term, custom plant health interventions lead to more balanced and stable growth, which makes the plants more resistant to weather damage and disease. This means that in addition to looking and growing better, they pose less of a safety hazard to people, animals, and structures.
#3 Aesthetic Landscape Care
Maintaining beautiful landscapes requires functional as well as aesthetic care. The architectural integrity of the landscape can help homeowners in several ways, including framing views from their home, creating shade in advantageous places, or improving the privacy on their property.
#4 Stronger Plant Growth
In addition to aesthetic benefits, consistent plant health care helps plants live longer, grow with healthier structures, and survive potential disasters, saving property owners the time and money needed to maintain their landscapes over the long term. With customized root pruning, watering, aeration, and more, this care promotes more balanced growth, helping the plants resist droughts and storms with fewer health risks.
#5 Early Disease Detection
Long-term care helps ensure early identification and appropriate response to tree diseases. Out-of-season color changes, spots, cankers, missing bark, fallen limbs, and other warning signs indicate a need for precise care strategies. When common diseases and pests such as oak wilt, spongy moths, and thousand cankers disease are allowed to fester and spread, they pose a risk to the health and safety of individual trees and the overall landscape.
#6 Higher Property Value
More carefully maintained plants lead to higher curb appeal, which can raise the property value considerably. Property homeowners who want to attract buyers, tenants, or investors should consider the potential long-term returns of plant health care beyond personal aesthetic changes.
#7 Better Sustainability
Environmental sustainability is an essential practice for both personal and professional landscape needs. Many property owners take pride in reducing chemical usage, promoting biodiversity, and improving soil and water quality. This not only leads to healthier landscapes but can also improve sustainability and attract buyers, tenants, and investors to the property.
#8 Customized Plant Maintenance
One-size-fits-all plant maintenance often fails to account for plant species, locations, and the terrain of the individual landscape. These are essential factors when customizing plant maintenance strategies for long-term care. Expert arborists with local experience can design personalized health care strategies for the landscape’s specific features, species, and conditions, saving owners time and money on generic plant care solutions.
Partner with the Plant Health Care Experts at RTEC Treecare
At RTEC Treecare, our team of arborists uses over 25 years of plant health care experience to offer long-term landscaping solutions. Sustainable plant health care begins with tailored solutions that nurture the health, maintenance, growth, and beauty of each individual landscape.
While this starts with an inspection and a short-term health plan, at RTEC Treecare, we know the importance of continued observation and maintenance to protect landscapes year-round, not just when our professionals are on-site.
Contact our team today to learn how we can customize a plant health care strategy for your landscape. Just as every property is different, every strategy for long-term plant health maintenance should be just as adaptable.
