TURF & ORNAMENTAL DIVISION

 

SHRUB CARE PROGRAM

Our shrub care program is designed to achieve a clearly defined objectives such as increasing growth, establishing newly installed plants, enhancing appearance, correcting or preventing nutrient deficiencies, controlling pests and diseases.

Before your first application begins Pestguard will arrange to inspect your property for visual deficiencies and collect soil samples to be analyzed. Because each and every treatment application is unique to your properties needs, every application will be slightly different. Below is a basic outline for most treatments.

  1. An inspection of your shrubs is performed by our highly trained technicians.
  2. Our custom blended granular shrub fertilizer is applied six times per year  ensuring that each shrub receives the proper amount of fertilizer. Our fertilizer has all the macro and micro nutrients necessary to promote healthy new root growth and blooms on blooming shrubs.
  3. After the fertilizer application, fertilizer and other small debris are  removed from the concrete surfaces such as the driveway, sidewalks and roadway .
  4. Shrubs are treated with a horticultural spray oil and a systemic insecticide to control shrub damaging insects
  5. A broad spectrum fungicide is applied when necessary to prevent or control damaging fungi.

Did You Know ?

Mulches can benefit the healthy growth of our landscapes by reducing water loss around the root balls of newly planted trees & shrubs. They suppress weeds in planting beds to reduce both labor and the use of chemicals to keep beds clean. Soil temperatures around plant roots will stay more constant under a layer of mulch.

New mulch installation can be included in any Service Program.

SHRUB DAMAGING INSECTS & FUNGI

 

PLANT DAMAGING INSECTS

SCALE INSECTS

  • Mealy bug : Lace bug : White flies : Aphidsยท
  • These insects suck the juices from the leaves of shrubs causing yellow spots, disfigured new growth and occasionally death to some plants.
  • Cottony Cushion : False Oleander : Asian Cycad : Barnacle
  • Scales are insects with piercing-sucking mouth-parts like hypodermic needles.  They insert their mouth-part into the plant tissue and suck out the juices of the plant.

SPIDER MITES

  • Spider mites affect many different varieties of plants and trees causing serious damage or even death.

Fungi

Fungi causes spotting to the leaves of plants.  The damage these diseases cause varies greatly. Many disease simply make the plant look unattractive, while others will result in death to the plant.

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4274 Independence Court    Sarasota    FL  34234

Phone: 866 848 1100                                  Email: info@pestguardtermite.com