Candler-McAfee's Expert Arborists

Candler-McAfee’s Tree Challenges

Southern pine beetle is the pest we take most seriously in Candler-McAfee’s older, unmanaged pine stands, since years without thinning or pruning leave trees more vulnerable during dry spells. Oak decline and hypoxylon canker turn up in willow oaks and water oaks that have sat on compacted, slow draining clay for decades without root zone attention. Dogwood anthracnose shows up on flowering dogwoods tucked into the community’s shadier, more established yards.

Summer thunderstorms, remnant hurricanes, and occasional ice storms shape the risk calendar here, and long neglected trees on saturated clay are the ones most likely to fail without warning. An expert arborist reads the cause, a beetle infestation building unseen inside the bark, a root plate loosening under wet clay, rather than waiting for the visible symptom.