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At Big O Tree and Lawn Service, we pride ourselves on being experts in our field, dedicated to providing you with timely pest alerts and valuable plant education. Our blog is a rich resource filled with insights on maintaining your landscape’s health and beauty, along with occasional updates and stories from our company. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok to see what we’re working on next!
Why Spring Plant Care Matters
Why Spring Plant Care Matters: Setting Your Landscape Up for Year-Round Health Spring is more than just the season when plants begin to leaf out and lawns turn green again—it’s the most important time of year to care for your landscape. As trees, shrubs, and lawns...
What is a Soil Enhancement?
The average or typical landscape soil in Central Virginia is very poor. During the construction process the original “top soil” is removed from the site and replaced with the subsoil from excavation. This soil lacks the original organic material and is usually heavy...
Spotted Lantern Fly in the Shenandoah Valley
The Spotted Lantern Fly is the newest non-native invasive insect to affect the Shenandoah Valley. This pest was first introduced into the US from China in Pennsylvania in 2012. It has quickly spread through the Mid-Atlantic and north east. This pest was first found in...
Spotted Lantern Fly
Our landscape plants are under a constant and changing attack from insects, disease and environmental conditions. Most of the issues facing the landscape are normal, native insects and diseases. However, we are seeing a regular introduction of non-native, invasive...
Winter Boxwood Care
Winter is a difficult time of the year for most plants and for gardeners as well. Boxwoods maintain their foliage throughout the year as they are evergreen plants. Consequently, this can cause several potential damaging situations. Big O Tree has listed some of these...