Haddam and Higganum, CT, with East Haddam, Middletown, Chester, Durham, Killingworth and the surrounding Middlesex County towns.
About Meristem Tree Care and Plantscapes
A good share of Cockaponset forest lies inside Haddam, and the town's yards run straight up against it — oaks and hemlocks that stood here first and intend to outlast the house. Meristem Tree Care and Plantscapes tends those trees the patient way: a multi-year pruning plan instead of one hard cut, deadwood taken out, canopies raised, thinned or reduced to what the tree can actually carry. Where a codominant trunk or rot threatens the roof they take the tree down; where it only needs feeding, they use a tree and shrub fertilizer blended for Connecticut soil, carrying micronutrients, mycorrhizae, carbohydrates and humic acids to build the ground underneath it. Pest and disease work goes in by root and trunk injection, so the material reaches the plant that needs it and drifts nowhere else. On the ground they design and install adaptive perennial gardens thick with native plants, convert thirsty lawn to low-water planting, and keep it alive with garden maintenance, hand watering in awkward corners, mulch and decorative rock, wood chips and small sprinkler repairs. Hedges get hand-pruned when a hedge trimmer is the wrong tool — which, in an old Haddam dooryard, it usually is.