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How to Plant a Tree
Get help to properly plant your new tree with downloadable diagrams, handouts, and videos. Learn about common mistakes and misunderstandings when planting new trees. Read answers to frequently asked questions from our team of Certified Arborists.
Mulch Your Trees the Right Way
Learn how—and how NOT—to mulch a tree to ensure that it lives a long, healthy, and happy life. Improper mulching is a leading cause of early tree deaths as anything against the trunk of a tree damages the cambium layer and can lead to disease and infestations of pests. Mulch Right, Columbia!
Watering Your Trees
Your new tree needs 3-5 gallons of water each week during its first 2 years as it is establishing its root system. Your Beat the Heat trees come with a TreeDiaper watering device to help make this a bit easier. But a TreeDiaper doesn’t take the place of watering. Learn more about watering your trees on this page.
Advocating for our Urban Canopy
Our urban canopy isn’t nice. It’s necessary to ensure the health of all of us living in urban environments. There is so much evidence connecting our urban tree canopy to human health outcomes, not to mention protections for our pollinators, insects and birds. Protecting our canopy is an urban health imperative.
The Right Tree for The Right Place
You’ve seen trees like the one in the photo above—a great tree planted in the wrong place…in this case, under distribution lines. Whoever planted it wasn’t thinking about what this tree would look like 75 years later. Learn how to choose the right tree to plant in the place you are thinking about to ensure your tree lives a long and happy life!
Protecting Urban Trees from Damage
Coming soon. There is a lot to know about protecting our own trees from damage, and even more to know about how to advocate for the protection of valuable trees that are not on your property.