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Spruce Tree Care

Spruce are high altitude dwellers widespread throughout the southwest . They also are very popular as a landscape tree.

Spruce Tree Health Care

In Denver, the IPS beetle can cause damage or even kill a spruce. Preventive spraying needs to be done throughout the growing season. There's also gall which looks little pineapples on the tips of the branches. The needles may turn purple if it is drought stressed. Trees from Washington through Utah and New Mexico are more prone to Douglas fir tussock moth, which attacks spruce, but it has appeared in Colorado.

Spruce Tree Trimming

Lifting helps with landscaping chores and keeps a spruce from collecting trash.  A spruce trimming is usually cosmetic and also for taking the branches away from windows, sidewalks and other structures. They serve as a great wind shield planted throughout sotuhwest Colorado to control snow drifts.

Spruce Tree Removal - spruce tree removal will usually be straightforward.  A tree in decline will thin out and start to die from the top down. 

Please call 303-795-2381 with any questions.