If you love taking care of your property, chances are, you are an enthusiastic DIY landscaper who loves making his yard his canvas. After all, why should you hire help when you can roll up your sleeves and do the entire tree planting on your own, right? Well, not so fast.

Years ago, before the age of professional arborists, that might have been the sensible thing to do. Today, however, hiring residential tree planting services from a reliable company is the much smarter thing to do. Why? Because the truth of the matter is, tree planting is both an art and science that requires the right training, much experience, and the proper equipment. You can’t just dig a hole, put a tree inside it, water it every now and then and pray for the best. There’s much more to the art of planting.

Besides enhancing the look of your landscape, the shade of the trees you will plant will help conserve energy. For that very reason, you need to hire professional residential tree planting services because a professional landscape designer can help determine the best location for a new tree and the kind that will best thrive in your area. There are a lot of benefits of planting trees among which the most obvious are:

• Reducing air conditioning costs up to 50%;
• Planting one tree generates $30,000 in oxygen, removes $60,000 worth of air pollution and recycles $35,000 in water in 50 years;
• Hiring a professional landscape designer to take care of your yard can increase your property’s value by up to 20%.

But how do you find a reliable arborist? Start by asking your friends and neighbors if they have ever hired professional tree planting services and who they would recommend. Although word of mouth may be the best way of advertising, arborists are also listed in the “yellow pages” under “trees”, or you can simply go online and browse the internet. The best ones in your area are bound to appear in the top results of your search engine. A reliable company which offers residential tree planting services should involve:

• Studying the location, the soil, the weather and the adjacent species for a successful and healthier tree planting;
• Placing trees in suitable locations in order to get the best results;
• Offer the best practices to ensure a healthy and fast growth as well as the long-term survival of the trees they will plant.