Forget about Coronavirus for a few minutes: read this blog and take a pleasant stroll through a forest of the imagination! Two relatively recent events sent me tumbling back to the childhood of my son, as well as to my own: the 2017 movie Goodbye Christopher Robin and a summer […]

Savannah, Georgia is no stranger to invasions. The first in its recorded history took place in 1733, when James Oglethorpe invaded Georgia, a colony named after the King of England and composed largely of freed debtors. His settlement would soon enough be invaded by Pirates and Spaniards, and much later […]

The custom began nearly 1000 years ago in Norse mythology, and because of it we tend to make light of an insidious problem for our trees! The myth: there once was a man named Odin who was married to a woman named Frigg. Together they had a son, Baldur. Frigg […]

As you walk outside your home or office on the hot days of Summer and Fall of 2019, allow that blast of heat that hits you to transport you 1,500 miles to the west, to a very different type of “woodland”. You see, if you find yourself walking among the […]

Downey Trees became an Accredited Utility Contractor through the Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA). Coupled with our existing status as a TCIA Accredited Tree Care Company, a title we have held since October 1, 2007, Downey Trees joins a group of only eight tree care companies nationwide that hold both […]

Trees have some capabilities you might find surprising – some that could even be considered surprisingly human. Examples of these are revealed in a recent book written by German Forester Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees. Read more to find out how trees “talk” to other trees, “help” other trees, […]

Time had taken its toll on quite a few trees at the Atlanta Botanical Garden (ABG), and several others were in need of removal to make way for other projects. There were only a few people, however, that knew something special was planned for the afterlife of these trees. In […]

It must be something about this time of year: driving around Atlanta I see so many trees that look as though they would be better suited to illustrate a book by Dr. Seuss!  Perhaps it is the trunks and branches which are devoid of leaves that reveal the wildest and […]

January 18, 2019 Even today, three months after Hurricane Michael struck a section of the Florida Panhandle, the scene in the storm’s path becomes other-worldly: trees uprooted, leaning precariously, or completely snapped off at incongruous heights. Hundred-year-old Oak trees still standing, but with gnarled limbs resembling ghoulish arms, leaves mostly […]