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Plant Health Care

Plant Health Care is a comprehensive approach to the overall health and beauty of your landscape. This customized service utilizes monitoring visits by certified prfessionals to inspect your trees and shrubs and their growing conditions. During these visits we implement an Intergrated Pest Management (IPM) strategy that includes insect and disease management, root zone management including soil testing, fertilizing, and soil amendments.  Reccomendations for proper irrigation levels are also given.

Natural Creations offers year-round plans for the health of your landscape.  Your plants are inspected monthly during the growing season to scout for insects or diseases that attack your landscape.

Our Services Include:

  • Tree and Shrub Fertilization
    Fertilizing your plants in March will provide the nutrients your plants will need for the upcoming year by building root mass and making the plant cells stronger.
  • Dormant Oil Applications
    Certian insects lay eggs that overwinter and hatch in the spring.  Spraying dormant oil during the winter months will help reduce the insect populations, providing a more environmentally freindly remedy than several insecticide applications.  Once insect thresholds are reached during the summer, insecticides will be necessary.
  • Bed Pre-emergents
    Pre-emergent herbicides are used to minimize weed seed germinination.  This provides an inexpensive solution to spending your summer pulling weeds.
  • Borer Prevention
    This preventative measure helps guard your trees from insects that tunnel underneath the bark of your trees and shrubs, inhibiting their ability to transfer wáter and nutrients.
  • Shothole Disease Prevention
    We treat laurels and cherry trees to prevent a disease called shothole.  Shothole disease creates holes throughout the foliage, resulting in and unsightly appearance.
  • Deer Repellent
    In areas with heavy deer populations, a deer repellent is used to keep deer from eating desirable plants such as azaleas, rhododendrons, arborvitae, and seasonal color.
  • Fungicide Applications
    Fungi like powdery mildew can be a problem for certian plants, and preventative measures like fungicides can be taken to control these diseases.
  • Rose Care
    Roses require a régimen of fertilizers, insecticides and fungicides to ensure their health.  Frequent visits are made to inspect roses, and actions are taken to prevent and control problems.
  • Insecticide Applications
    A variety of pests attack landscape plants.  With regular plant inspections and scouting for insect thresholds, we minimize the unnecessary application of  insecticides.
  • Deep Root Fertilizer Injections
    This is an effective method of delivering nutrients to your plant’s root zone.   We apply fertilizers, micronutrients and  insecticides below the soil to minimize the potential for nutrient runoff.  This helps to  maximize the amount taken in by the plant.
  • Flea, Tick and Mosquito Prevention
    Periodic applications are made to prevent fleas, ticks, and mosquitos from  becoming a problema in your lawn.

 

Nick Wilson is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University where he holds a B. S. in plant and soil science.  As part of his education, he interned with the Tennessee Farm Bureau caring for their home office grounds in Columbia, TN.   The following year, he worked for the Tennessee Department of Agriculture maintaining the grounds of the Ellington Agriculture Center in Nashville, TN.

In 2002 Nick graduated from Middle Tennessee State University and began working with Natural Creations .   Nick worked as a lawn maintenance foreman for several  years .  In 2006, he became the Chemical Division manager where he is today.  Nick now manages chemical applications, plant health and lawn care, enhancing the development and growth of some of the most intricate and diverse gardens in Nashville.