Talking Trees with Davey Tree – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Lou Meyer from Davey's Mid-Atlantic region talks all about the sweet gum tree, including its biology, unique features and pros and cons. 

In this episode we cover: 

• Sweet gum's spiky seeds (1:35)
• Why are they called "sweet gum?" (4:12)
• How large do they get? (6:00)
• Sweet gums aren't planted much (7:03)
• What to do about your sweet gum's surface roots (9:07)
• Where do they grow? (10:52)
• Are the black gum and sweet gum related? (11:39)
• Sweet gum identifying features (12:42)
• Crafts with sweet gum seeds (14:54)
• Fruit regulators (16:00)
• Do sweet gums belong in the forest? (18:15)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.

To learn more about tree species, read Davey's Tree Identification blogs, such as Tree Identification: Do I Have a Sweetgum Tree and more. 

Connect with Davey Tree on social media:
Twitter: @DaveyTree
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YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
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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!

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Michael Cassidy, sales arborist at Davey's West Columbus office, shares his list of scary movies featuring spooky trees, eerie forests and creepy plants just in time for Halloween. 

In this episode we cover: 

• Doug's favorite horror movie (1:22)
• Doug and Michael's Halloween traditions (2:40)
• Scary movies with scary trees and plants  
  • Pumpkinhead (4:34)
  • The Wicker Man (5:01)
  • Ernest Scares Stupid (6:02)
  • Blair Witch Project (7:26)
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers (8:13)
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (11:39)
  • Color Out of Space (12:06)
  • Moonstruck (12:38)
  • Midsommar (13:14)
  • Jumanji (14:02)
  • Predator (15:01)
  • Alien (15:44)
  • Wrong Turn (16:41)
  • The Watchers (17:02)
  • The Evil Dead series (17:35)
  • Gaia (19:57)
  • The Wizard of Oz (20:27)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.

To learn more about scary trees and plants, read Davey's blog, Zombie Trees: What You Need to Know. 

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!

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We sent in your questions, so in this part one episode, Davey arborist Lou Meyer answers them! To submit a question for a future episode, email us at podcasts@davey.com.

In this episode we cover: 

• Growing trees in containers (1:03)
• How is biochar applied? (9:46)
• Chlorosis - iron sulfate or biochar? (14:42) 

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.

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!

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Miles Stephens from Davey's South Pittsburgh office talks with Doug over their fascination with the pawpaw tree.

In this episode we cover:  

• How Doug and Miles learned about the pawpaw tree (0:43)
• What is the pawpaw tree? (2:07)
• How to grow the pawpaw fruit (2:50)
• Pollinating a pawpaw tree (3:22)
• Pawpaw tree folktales (4:12)
• The pawpaw tree fruit and its flavor (5:50)
• How long it takes to get a fruit harvest (6:57)
• Pawpaw tree ice cream (8:05)
• Lewis and Clark with the pawpaw tree (9:25)
• Educating others about the pawpaw tree (10:32)
• Harvesting pawpaw trees (11:40)
• How Miles maintains his trees (12:59)
• Planting pawpaw tree seeds (13:51)
• Transporting pawpaw trees (14:59)
• When to transport your trees (14:56)
• Miles' favorite part of growing pawpaw trees (17:56)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about caring and transporting fruit trees, read our blog Guide to Transplanting Fruit Trees. 

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!    

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Dan Hager from Hartney Greymont, a Davey company, in Concord, talks about the fall and spring planting seasons.

In this episode we cover:  

• When to plant a tree (0:48)
• Mistakes homeowners make when planting (1:16)
• Planting potted plants (2:00)
  • Caring for roots in potted plants (2:38)
• Utilizing native soil (3:47)
• Planting bigger vs planting smaller (4:17)
• Spring planting (4:47)
• Watering newly planted trees (5:38)
• Dan's seasonal preferences (6:17)
• Dan's favorite trees to plant (6:52)
• The importance of plant diversity in your landscape (8:11)
• How Dan became an arborist (9:02)
• Dan's relationship with his clients (10:43)
• When does the planting season take place? (11:25)
• Is it okay to plant during the off season? (13:31)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about planting in the off season, read our blogs Is it Safe to Plant Trees in Summer? and Can You Plant Trees, Shrubs or Evergreens in the Winter?

To learn more about handling potted plants, read our blog Tree Planting Guide: 3 Methods of Planting Trees.

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!    

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Mat Garey from Davey's Detroit Lawncare office gives you a reason to not rake your yard by sharing the benefits of mulching and composting your leaves.

In this episode we cover:  

• Do you have to rake your leaves? (0:40)
• Mulching leaves correctly (0:59)
• Mulching equipment (2:20)
• Benefits of leaving your leaves (2:52)
• How to use leaves in your garden (5:25)
• Protecting your trees from leaf build up (6:45)
• Handling leaves in the winter (8:08)
• Handling leftover leaves in the spring (9:15)
• Keeping leaves off your driveway (11:13)
• Composting your leaves (13:38)
• Why Mat likes working in lawncare (13:55)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about managing your leaves, read our blog, Managing Fallen Leaves in Your Yard.

To learn more about when to leave the leaves, watch Matt Betz in this WCNC segment explaining when is it better to rake up fallen leaves?

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!    

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Brad McBride from Davey's West Cleveland office talks about why soil care is vital for tree health, how to check the health of your soil and what else can be done to improve it.

In this episode we cover:  

• Making soil simple (0:35)
• How do you test soil? (1:57)
• Arbor Green PRO® (3:10) 
• Two-step soil care program (5:13)
• Watering (6:33) 
• Air spading services (7:42)
• Vertical mulching and mulch rings (9:59) (12:35) (14:34)
• Is drought or too much rain worse? (10:44)
• How Brad started working in tree care (11:18)
• Cultivating (14:09)
• How to tell what the soil is like (15:10)
•  Feeling after caring for a tree (16:33)
• Davey.com/SoilCare (19:00)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about soil care and its importance, watch Brad on Cleveland's local news station, Fox 8's New Day Cleveland show, where you'll see soil props and tools in action. The Importance of Healthy Soil for Tree Growth and How to Improve Your Soil.

To read our blogs about soil care and mulching, check out our blogs on our website, Soil Care and Mulching blogs.

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!

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R.J. Laverne , manager of education and training at the Davey Institute, talks about what he does as a tree appraiser, including occasionally working in a courtroom. 

In this episode we cover:  

• How to determine what a tree is worth (0:53)
• Why find the value of your tree? (1:43)
• Trees in real estate (4:55)
• Being an objective appraiser (7:08)
• What an appraiser looks for (8:34)
• How to quantify a tree's product (11:02)
• How often do tree appraisals happen? (13:48)
• Appraisals in a courtroom (14:30)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about how to increase the value of your property through landscaping, read our blog Easy Landscaping to Help Sell Your Home

To learn which trees add the most value to landscapes, read our blog What Trees to Add (Or Cut Down) To Increase Property Value

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!

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Madison Law from Davey's South Houston office talks about working in locations with extreme heat and her Davey experience.

In this episode we cover:  

• How Madison works in extreme heat (1:15)
• What Madison does for Davey (2:53)
• Houston in the winter (4:01)
• How Houston trees handle extreme weather (5:30)
• Optimal time to plant in Southern states (6:31)
• Live Oaks & White Oaks (8:46)
• Trees Madison loves (10:13)
• How Madison became an arborist (12:00)
• Madison's experience in the male dominated industry (12:46)
• What Madison gets out of her job (14:05)
• Rainfall in Houston (15:00)
• Properly watering in hot climates (16:03)
• Mulching in extreme heat (17:52)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about caring for trees in hot, dry conditions, read our blog How Often to Water Trees During a Drought.

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!    

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Taylor Judd from Davey's East Denver office talks about important factors to consider when planting a new tree and his recommendations for the Colorado area.

In this episode we cover:  

• Summer rain and heat stress in Colorado (0:50)
• Growing trees in Colorado (3:22)
• Should you add fertilizer when planting new trees? (4:54)
• Root flare (6:01)
• Handling a grade in your yard (6:57)
• Mulching new plantings (7:24)
• Colorado Tree Recommendations: Burr oak, Redbud, Sensation maple, Chanticleer pear (8:55), (10:50)
• Emerald ash borer on the West Coast (10:11)
• Conifer trees in Colorado (13:18)
• Right Tree, Right Place (14:14)
• How Taylor became an arborist (15:41)
• How Taylor works with clients (17:41)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about different types of soil your landscape could have, read our blog How to Keep Soil Healthy For Your Plants.

To learn more about landscaping as a new homeowner, red our blog Landscaping Tips For New Homeowners.

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!    

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