Holly Springs, NC Expert Arborists

Holly Springs’s Tree Challenges

Holly Springs’ understory dogwoods, common along shaded lot lines and creek edges, are prone to dogwood anthracnose in the town’s humid, low-lying pockets, a fungal disease that thins the canopy and can kill a tree over several seasons if it isn’t caught. Where lots back up to remaining pine stands, southern pine beetle is the bigger threat, spreading fast through stressed trees during hot, dry stretches. Willow oak and red maple round out the more established residential plantings.

Holly Springs falls under the same Piedmont storm pattern as the rest of Wake County: summer thunderstorms, remnant hurricanes, and occasional ice storms layered on top of red clay that saturates quickly and holds water at root level. A tall pine at the edge of a thinned stand, standing in that saturated clay with less wind protection than it used to have, is one of the more common storm calls we get in this part of the county.