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If You Can Only Do One Thing for Your Property This Season, Make It Outdoor Landscape Lighting

Nothing transforms a landscape design as quickly and effectively as outdoor landscape lighting. It’s a powerful tool in the landscape designer’s toolkit because it plays up your property’s strengths while downplaying any weaknesses (i.e., the areas you would rather people not see). When deployed effectively, proper outdoor landscape lighting: Whether you are starting a new

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crane removal

Cranes in Tree Care

Written by Evan Brumfield – Maryland Tree Care Manager Cumberland Valley Tree Service – Landscaping has stepped up their game and created an even more cost effective, industry leading, and customer focused tree removal option with a brand new 2022 Peterbilt/Altec 38-ton capacity crane. The cranes provides the clearest benefit in the tree removal work

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tree lines

Why Trees?

Written by Jake Schrom – Senior Landscape Designer Trees surround our world. There are approximately 3 trillion trees on the planet. Trees can be messy from leaf and fruit drop. They grow and sometimes can get quite large. As a result, it takes a great deal of resources to care for and maintain them within

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Beech Leaf Disease

Beech Leaf Disease

Written by Jamey Schwartz – Plant Health Care Manager There is a new disease to the North East that is causing mortality to beech trees. Beech Leaf Disease (BLD) originated in Ohio near Lake Erie in 2012 and has now spread to most counties in Pennsylvania. The disease is spread by root graft, rain splash,

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Spotted Lanternfly

Spotted Lanternfly

Written by Jamey Schwartz- Plant Health Care Manager With Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) being present in our service area for several years now, we are gaining a better understanding on what client’s expectations should be. SLF adults feed on a wide variety of trees, but are particularly attracted to ailanthus “Tree-of-Heaven” and mapletrees. SLF’s lifecycle consists

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Beautiful Pink Flowers in Garden

What is a “Low Maintenance Landscape”

Written by Brent Lucas – Landscape Manager The “low maintenance landscape” is a request that we receive frequently. There are many considerations when designing a low maintenance landscape for a client. Our approach to the design process has always been very systematic and begins with a comprehensive discussion with our client as to what they

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The Thanksgiving Tree

The First Thanksgiving Tree

The result of the Pogue’s efforts and the church’s decorating was a shrine to gratitude that stood just over 20 turkeys tall: the church’s first Thanksgiving Tree

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Top Tree Care Companies

CVTS-L Ranks Among Top Tree Care Companies

Cumberland Valley Tree Service – Landscaping, Chambersburg’s Authority in Tree Care, Plant Health Care and Landscaping services, was ranked among the Top 20 accredited tree care companies by the Tree Care Industry Association. 

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‘Say Trees!’ – Introducing the Next Generation of Arborists to the Exciting World of Trees

The experience was another example of Cumberland Valley Tree Service – Landscaping’s commitment to educating our community about trees. While it’s more common to find us teaching customers about the trees on their property or training our arborists how to perform their work safely and effectively, we will never turn down an opportunity to talk about trees with an eager audience.

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Lion-Tail Pruning: Not Worth the Risk

Generally, the aim of our blog is to provide you with two resources: 1. Education to help you understand why your plants do what they do. 2. Best-practices that you can use right now to be proactive with the health and maintenance of your trees and shrubs. However, we also need to issue warnings about

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Franklin County, PA

Chambersburg: (717) 263-8657
Greencastle: (717) 597-9700
Waynesboro: (717) 765-4624

Cumberland County, PA

Carlisle: (717) 249-8443
Camp Hill: (717) 761-0204

Maryland Locations

Frederick County: (301) 663-0061
Washington County: (301) 714-0130

Additional PA Locations

Adams County: (717) 337-9128
Dauphin County: (717) 545-1005

West Virginia Locations

Berkeley Springs: (304) 913-3126

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