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Join us this week as we take a deep dive into urban heat and ways we can create cooler cities. Did you know trees can help in reducing urban heat islands? #trees #urbanheat #urbanheatisland

We wish you all a safe, healthy, and happy Memorial Day weekend! We wish you all a safe, healthy, and happy Memorial Day weekend!

What a good boy

WOW! We have never seen this before! Have you heard of Daisugi? Daisugi is a Japanese forestry technique where specially planted cedar trees are pruned heavily ...(think of it as giant bonsai) to produce "shoots" that become perfectly uniform, straight and completely knot free lumber. The shoots are carefully and gently pruned by hand every two years leaving only the top boughs, allowing them to grow straight. Harvesting takes 20 years and old "tree stock" can grow up to a hundred shoots at a time. The technique originated in the 14th century. In the 14th c. a form of very straight and stylized sukiya-zukuri architecture was high fashion, but there simply weren't nearly enough raw materials to build these homes for every noble or samurai who wanted one. Hence this clever solution of using bonsai techniques on trees. The daisugi looks very peculiar, so even when demand for the lumber dropped off in the 16th century demand for them in ornamental gardens kept the forest wardens busy. What do you think if this technique? Better than destroying the whole tree?

Happy New Year from Thrifty Tree Service

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Happy Thanksgiving from the Thrifty Tree family to yours! We're thankful to have you as a customer! What are you thankful for?Happy Thanksgiving from the Thrifty Tree family to yours! We're thankful to have you as a customer! What are you thankful for?

An unusually burned pattern on a Southern Live Oak Tree which have ropey grain patterns. It reveals that the tree has a burl which is like a scab or tumour which grows over an old injury like a pearl. The grain layers fail to bind together, and look like wooden spaghetti!

Our prayers and best wishes to everyone affected by the fires

Water flowing through these melting ice-coated trees is like nothing I've ever seen before!