Rick's Certified Arborists

Rick's Certified Arborists Insect and Disease Management For Trees & Shrubs

08/20/2026

Treating Multi Stems as Individual Trees 🤔?

This Ash in West Chester is a MONSTER, the equivalent of 5 Ash most people have on their property. Here’s the mistake most wouldn’t catch :

When a tree splits into multiple stems at or below chest height, most applicators still inject around the root flare and call it a “success.” When injecting Multi Stem trees that low, the product moves up long before it moves sideways.

This means the outside of the canopy is protected, but the product never climbs into the crotch and up the back side of each trunk. So the outside of the canopy gets a full-strength dose, while the center remains unprotected and at risk of decline.

Each of these five trunks gets treated as if it’s an individual tree, with its own canopy to protect. Each one measured separately and dosed by its own DBH. This is the only way the entire canopy stays protected, not just the easy-to-reach edge.

Just like this Ash, you don’t have to lose your trees. You just have to find a company who can treat them correctly.

Tree Preservation starts one stem at a time.

08/18/2026

The Kennett Beech was standing long before the community was.

It has been through every winter, every drought, every storm this county has thrown at it for three centuries. It survived through all of it. Generations of Kennett Square have walked past it, sat under it, and grown up with it in the background.

Most of the trees we care for belong to a family. This one belongs to a town. Ricks Certified Arborists partnered with Anson B Nixon Park to adopt The Kennett Beech and donate its treatment for Beech Leaf Disease.

Beech Leaf Disease is the next threat the tree will face, and left unassisted, it could bring down this historical tree. Caused by a microscopic nematode, the damage works inside the dormant buds, strips the tree of its ability to feed itself, and does not care how old the tree is.

You can plant a Beech tomorrow but you can’t replace a generational tree like this.

Rooted in Tree Preservation in Kennett Square.

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Today our Office Manager Kayla made us proud, becoming the area’s FIRST ServiceTitan Certified CSR & Dispatcher Commande...
08/14/2026

Today our Office Manager Kayla made us proud, becoming the area’s FIRST ServiceTitan Certified CSR & Dispatcher Commander in the Plant Health Care industry 🥇.

We are one of a handful of tree care companies running ServiceTitan, and Kayla continues to show that same dedication to our customers.

When you call about a struggling Dogwood, she is not taking a message. She is pulling your property history, seeing which arborist knows your street, and putting you in the treatment window your tree actually needs.

That is the difference between a company that schedules appointments and a company that protects trees. Hard to believe it’s been over 7 years since she answered her first phone call for the company.

08/13/2026

Exclusive Offer For Green Industry Companies :

We are officially the first tree preservation company in our area using ReferPro .

If you have a customer who could use a visit from a Certified Arborist, send them our way. You earn 10% commission on every qualified referral.

Landscapers, lawn care, hardscape, irrigation, property managers: you are already the first call when a customer points at a dying Ash or a Beech that is thinning out. Now that call pays.

When you hand us a client, you are putting your name on us. We do not take that lightly.

08/11/2026

Homeowners and Arborists alike have probably been told there is one injection treatment for Beech Leaf Disease worth using. That is no longer the case.

Field data out of Long Island shows PhosphoJet held 97 percent healthy canopy a full year after a single treatment, and outperformed the other leading trunk injection treatment on every measure of canopy condition, while reducing the overall number of drill sites.

Having treated hundreds of Beech trees last year with outstanding results, PhosphoJet was our first choice for these three Copper Beech in Villanova, all coming in at over 40 inches in diameter and treated through the Arborjet F-Series, so arborists and property owners can see the difference for themselves.

The trees that define these properties are worth the better option.

Tree Preservation starts with PhosphoJet.

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July is almost behind us, and the back half of summer is when a tree's earlier stress starts to show.The heat it weather...
07/31/2026

July is almost behind us, and the back half of summer is when a tree's earlier stress starts to show.

The heat it weathered, the rain it did or did not get, the pressure from insects and disease all add up by late summer. The trees that looked fine in June sometimes tell a different story by August.

This is a natural checkpoint to get ahead of anything before fall.

A quick walkthrough now gives you a clear picture heading into the season change, while there is still plenty of time to act depending on what a Certified Arborist finds.

Heading into August, a free inspection from Rick's is the simplest way to know your trees are in good shape: https://rickscertifiedarborists.com/services/property-inspections/

The bugs you can see are rarely the ones that matter most.By the time an insect problem is obvious from across the yard,...
07/29/2026

The bugs you can see are rarely the ones that matter most.

By the time an insect problem is obvious from across the yard, it has usually been working on a tree for a while. Mites, Scale, and Borers like the Emerald Ash Borer do their damage quietly, and the early signs are small: a scatter of off-color leaves, fine holes in the bark, a thinning section that does not match the rest of the canopy.

Caught early, most pest pressure on a tree is manageable. Caught late, the options narrow fast. That is why a trained eye on your trees in midsummer matters.

Has something about one of your trees been bugging you this summer? Get a real answer: https://rickscertifiedarborists.com/services/insect-pest-control/

Real tree care starts with knowing what a tree is trying to tell you.That's the whole point of the team behind Rick's Ce...
07/27/2026

Real tree care starts with knowing what a tree is trying to tell you.

That's the whole point of the team behind Rick's Certified Arborists. The work happens because of people who trained for the credential, who know the species common to our region, and who treat someone's trees the way they would treat their own.

When a Certified Arborist walks your property, you are not getting a sales visit. You are getting a trained read from someone who genuinely cares whether your trees make it.

That is who shows up when you book a free inspection with Rick's: https://rickscertifiedarborists.com/services/property-inspections/

07/24/2026

This is what proactive tree care actually looks like up close.

Most tree treatments do not involve dramatic before-and-after moments. They look like this: a Certified Arborist delivering the right treatment to the right tree at the right time, often before a homeowner can even see a problem. Trunk injections, soil treatments, targeted applications, all chosen for a specific tree and a specific issue.

It is quiet, precise work. And it is the difference between a tree that bounces back and one that slowly declines.

Curious what your trees might need this season? Let's find out. www.rickscertifiedarborists.com/request-a-quote/

The trees worth the most to a property are usually the oldest ones. They are also the hardest to replace.A mature tree i...
07/22/2026

The trees worth the most to a property are usually the oldest ones. They are also the hardest to replace.

A mature tree is decades of growth you cannot buy back. So when one starts to struggle, the goal is rarely to give up on it. The goal is to figure out what it needs to keep going: a plan tailored to a specific tree, monitored over multiple seasons, adjusted as the tree responds.

It is a different approach than calling someone to take a tree down.

It starts with the assumption that the tree is worth saving: https://rickscertifiedarborists.com/services/property-inspections/

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