Many people enjoy an occasional spa day to refresh and rejuvenate themselves. Spa days provide physical and psychological advantages, including stress reduction, pain relief, skincare and improved blood circulation. You’ve probably never associated human spa treatments with tree trimming, but they can accomplish many of the same benefits for the tallest plants in your yard.

Airflow

Trees need proper ventilation and airflow around them. They don’t have lungs, but they do breathe. Proper air movement helps them accomplish this.

Your own skin looks and feels better after spa treatments help unclog pores and the like. Improved airflow around trees also makes them better able to withstand storms and wind without breaking or falling over.

Appearance

Treatments you get on a spa day not only make you feel better, but they also improve your appearance. Tree trimming can do the same thing. As much as certain spa treatments remove dead skin cells and minimize blemishes, proper tree pruning can eliminate diseased or weak tree parts that are unsightly.

Growth

Your spa day treatments can encourage the growth of new hair and skin cells so that your appearance is more youthful and radiant. Tree pruning also stimulates fresh growth, and that happens more near the cut than anywhere else. Precision pruning leads to specific growth in specifically chosen areas to guide the tree’s development in the desired direction.

Health

Routine spa days can detoxify your skin with deep cleaning. Specialized techniques and ingredients remove toxins and impurities, so your skin is rejuvenated and refreshed.

Likewise, removing damaged, diseased or dead branches from trees keeps them from spreading before they can hurt the rest of the tree. The result is that a vital organism is free to focus its energy on longer life and healthy growth.

Safety

Laser resurfacing, photodynamic therapy and chemical peels are among the spa treatments that might prevent skin cancer. Tree trimming can also improve the safety of these plants. V-shaped crotches and other limbs are potential dangers, and removing them prevents bark from getting trapped between limbs and forming weak attachments.

Sunlight

Facials and chemical peels are spa treatments that can help your skin regenerate after sun damage, but what trees sometimes need are limbs pruned or removed to let sunlight through. If sunlight only reaches the crown and the canopy, lower parts of the tree might not get the energy they need. Also, ground cover around the tree’s base can be starved of sunlight necessary for growth.

Treat Your Trees to Rejuvenation

Tree trimming can help your trees revitalize their health, but it must be done right. Different species of trees require pruning at specific times, on the right parts and with the proper tools. If you live in the Kalamazoo, MI area, call the professionals at Five Star Professional Services LLC to handle all your trimming and pruning needs.