Text Box:   Our Partners Text Box: 2247 West 6200 South Taylorsville, Utah  84118 P (801) 969-8381 F (801) 969-8323 Text Box: To contact us: Text Box: Phone: 801-969-8381 Fax: 801-969-8323 E-mail: info@behuninhort.com Text Box: EST. 1943 Text Box: Cultivating  Environments  Since 1943 Text Box: Arbor Services   · Tree Health Care Planning & Maintenance · Tree and Landscape Appraisal · Casualty Loss Analysis · Tree and Landscape Inventory & GPS · Risk Assessment & Hazard Evaluation · Site Planning for Tree Preservation · Tree Planting & Maintenance · Insect & Disease Diagnosis/Treatment Text Box: Since the trees and shrubs in your landscape essentially exist in a foreign environment, they often lack the nutrients found naturally on the forest floor. In your landscape, where natural fertilizer is limited, tree roots have to reach out to obtain the nutrients they need to grow. Barriers such as compacted soil, rock, buildings, pools, and pavements often inhibit their ability to obtain nutrients. Unfortunately, your lawn fertilizer is not enough because a slight amount, if any, will permeate down to the tree roots. Text Box: Tree and Shrub Fertilization Text Box: Proper pruning techniques provide a more natural tree shape, resulting in a healthier plant. Text Box: By periodically removing plant parts, your trees and shrubs will be rejuvenated and remain healthy and strong.  Text Box:    Arbor Care Text Box: One of the greatest investments you can make to your environment is maintaining a proper pruning program.   A proper pruning program, the periodic removal of plant parts, is done for the safety, health, appearance, and structural integrity of your trees and shrubs.  This ensures they remain safe, healthy, and beautiful. At Behunin Horticulture, our Arbor Division uses proper pruning techniques by implementing and exceeding the ANSI A300 standards for Arbor Care.  Since the use of improper pruning techniques can harm healthy plant growth, these standards should be applied to any person or entity engaged in the business, trade, or performance of repairing, maintaining, or preserving trees, shrubs, or other woody plants, so choose an arborist wisely.