770-889-2822 Downey Tree Service Professional Full-Service Tree Care HOME ABOUT SERVICES OUR WORK BLOG CONTACT CAREERS BLOG Downey Trees Inc. Merges with SavATree Bedford Hills, NY — June 15, 2020 — SavATree, the industry leader in professional tree, shrub and lawn care, has announced a merger with Downey Trees Inc. of Atlanta, GA, a full-service and highl… June 23, 2020 Read More Nature vs. Nurture The first part of this is a slightly biased testimonial. Several weeks ago, I had two Oak trees taken out from the back of my property. The trees had Hypoxylon canker, a fungus disease that is non-pre… June 2, 2020 Read More The Trees of the Hundred Acre Wood 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… April 21, 2020 Read More A Treasure Trove of Trees at Stone Mountain Park The imposing granite monadnock that towers over the Georgia landscape about 18 miles east of Atlanta is a lot more than a tourist attraction and home to such annual events as the Yellow Daisy Festival… March 17, 2020 Read More Savannah Invasion Pushed Back by the Tallow Terrors! 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 largel… January 31, 2020 Read More The Dark Side of a Christmas Tradition 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… December 17, 2019 Read More Thankful for 35 Years As we approach that best of American holidays – Thanksgiving – we take a moment to reflect on our company and our 35th Anniversary that we have celebrated and continue to celebrate in 2019. Time h… November 25, 2019 Read More Of Cacti & Trees: A Diatribe of Drought! 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 “wood… October 10, 2019 Read More Downey Trees Joins an Elite Fraternity & What it Means for You! 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 si… August 19, 2019 Read More Do Trees Harbor a Hidden Life? 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 … June 24, 2019 Read More Trees Cut Down Transformed into Works of Art 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, th… April 10, 2019 Read More Truffula Trees…or Woodbutchery? 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 a… March 12, 2019 Read More The Wake of the Hurricane – Downey Trees Report from the Panhandle 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… January 25, 2019 Read More A Prison with No Shade: A Tribute The back roads were dark and sinuous. It was well before sunup and the day promised to be hot and humid: even though it was it was past mid-September, the heat of summer showed no signs of releasing i… November 27, 2018 Read More The Heartbreaking Leyland Cypress: What You Need to Know The Downey Trees blog is often upbeat and entertaining; this is not such a post. So often we are called out to look at Leyland Cypress trees that are having problems, and we know what we are going to … October 18, 2018 Read More Petrified While the beauty and variety of trees to be found on Earth can quickly boggle the mind, some of the most interesting and mysterious are those that aren’t even alive today. No, we are not speaking of… August 16, 2018 Read More What’s out there in the trees – Our spring 2018 field report The sales staff at Downey Trees are on the front lines of tree issues: often getting the call to look at a tree gone awry. A tree brought down in the course of a storm leads to a pretty obvious diagno… June 14, 2018 Read More Not your Granddad’s fishing pond! Looking like cannon-shell craters left over from the Battle of Atlanta, properties all over the metro area are packed with what look like sinkholes bursting with weedy growth. Even the proper term for… April 19, 2018 Read More The Poster Child of Downey Trees’ Plant Health Care Program Earlier in its life, this tree served as the shade tree for mechanics of the same name. Later, its magnificent presence thwarted developments that would have threatened its survival. Today, it is pamp… March 8, 2018 Read More Teaching Aerial Rescue to the Rescuers Last year, a blog was posted on this website titled “A Skill You Hope You Will Never Need.” The tragic reality is that sometimes the skill is not where it is needed—a jolting example of wrong pl… February 3, 2018 Read More A Tale of Two (Christmas) Trees Downey Trees has forged some interesting partnerships over the years as well as some most unusual applications of arboriculture. One of these partnerships is with the Georgia Building Authority (GBA).… December 11, 2017 Read More Who said the Easter bunny can’t climb trees? It may be most unusual to be talking about an Easter Egg hunt in the middle of fall, but this was no usual Easter Egg hunt! It would be fallacious to say that the lead climbers at Downey Trees don’t… October 9, 2017 Read More A Soft Spot for the Animals It’s surprising what one might run across in a tree. Last summer, while removing a Red Oak tree approaching 250 years old, the Downey crew found a possum living a high-rise lifestyle about 45 feet… June 23, 2017 Read More A Skill You Hope You’ll Never Need To most of us, an error on the job might mean an addition mistake or a misspelled word; an injury, slamming one’s knee into a desk corner, or perhaps a paper cut. For the men and women in the busine… May 18, 2017 Read More Like the Falcon’s it’s all about the preparation and execution… Reflecting on similarities between our two organizations the Atlanta Falcons and Downey Trees, Inc. after looking back at the season-aka-2016. While Downey Trees is done with its season, the Atlanta… February 3, 2017 Read More Considering the Much Maligned Crapemyrtle! Even those that don’t have much of an appreciation of plants and flowers are likely to stop, stare, and admire the beauty and variety of color exhibited by the Crapemyrtle during the hot months of s… January 25, 2017 Read More Winter Tree Care Just because it’s dormant doesn’t mean there isn’t something to do… Caring for trees in the winter is another aspect of keeping your trees healthy and happy all year long and providing them th… January 12, 2017 Read More Over the River and Through the Woods… …To the Governor’s House We Go! Twas months before Christmas and all through the state They searched for a tree for the Governor’s estate. The chainsaws all hung in Downey’s shop with care, In… December 16, 2016 Read More What a Dry Spell it has been here in Hot-lanta… By all accounts we are in the early to mid-stages of fall as evidenced by our cooler mornings, crisp clean air, leaf color change and oh yeah-football. What does all that have to do with my trees you … November 7, 2016 Read More The Trouble with Leyland cypress… The increasing drought in Georgia has turned Leyland Cypress trees from green to branches of brown. What is the cause and what can be done? Below are some points about what we are seeing and some thin… October 28, 2016 Read More What a Summer it has been here in Hot-Lanta By all accounts we are in the early stages of fall as evidenced by our cooler mornings, crisp clean air, leaf color change and oh yeah-football. What does all that have to do with my trees you ask? As… October 28, 2016 Read More Last Day in the Life of a Bicentennial Oak The old soldier was showing his age. Several months prior, a large section of the top failed, breaking open to expose a significant cavity near the apex. There were telltale signs at the base of the t… October 6, 2016 Read More Early Fall-What’s up with the trees? We have come to associate the Labor Day weekend as the end of the summer and the beginning of fall, yet the autumnal equinox does not occur until around the 21st of September. In the southeast, the se… September 16, 2016 Read More Kudzu, just the facts please… Kudzu was first introduced from Asia in the late 19th century but not widely planted until the 1930’s when in 1935 as dust storms ravaged prairies, Congress acted declaring war on soil erosion and e… August 23, 2016 Read More From the Redwood Forest It seems as though no sooner than Memorial Day becomes a fading memory, the 4th of July rolls around to provide an opportunity for the celebration of our independence. No complaints here of another ho… June 17, 2016 Read More A Memorial Day Tribute As the European countryside was becoming scarred with trenches and pocked with artillery shells and the other devices of tortuous death that defined World War I, a different kind of devastation was ta… May 26, 2016 Read More Thoughts from the New Guy & a Most Unusual Funeral Training at Downey Trees, Inc., takes place every Friday morning at 6:30 AM. Sometimes, specialized training is provided in groups of associates with similar positions or qualifications. Training may … May 12, 2016 Read More Some Thoughts on Earth Day and Arbor Day, 2016 This Earth Day, April 22, 2016, I found myself speaking to 2 groups of Middle School Students at Summerhour Middle School near the Norcross Office of Downey Trees, Inc, Inc. The tTeachers, parents and… April 26, 2016 Read More Zika virus and detention ponds… Zika virus is the talk of every major news outlet and most recently the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta issued a travel advisory regarding the virus and travel to South America. The comm… February 8, 2016 Read More Why work with a Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA) accredited tree care firm? So how does a quality job from an industry accredited firm play into taking a dead tree down, it’s just a dead tree. Good question, and you got a great price from that guy that left a flyer on yo… November 17, 2015 Read More With all this rain, are my trees safe? Rain soaked soils have some homeowners asking the question, are my trees safe? It’s a fair question for sure and according to NOAA National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office Atlanta’s rai… November 9, 2015 Read More RESOURCES About Tree Care Services Plant Health Care Our Work Vegetation Management Blog Greenwaste Recycling Contact Retention Pond Management Careers Emergency Services 5055 Shadburn Rd, Cumming, GA 30041 Office: 770-889-2822 Fax: 770-889-3260 Website by Forum Communications Copyright 2017 Downey Trees INC. All Rights Reserved.