Central Texas winters can be tough on trees! On Thursday, October 16^th Join Dr. Stephanie Adams, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension Tree Specialist, for her informative program “Winterizing Your Trees”, from 6:00pm – 7:30pm at 100 Wilco Way in Georgetown.

Well-maintained trees add value to a home; property values of landscaped homes are 5%-20% higher than non-landscaped homes! Homes shaded by trees incur lower air-conditioning costs and heating costs can also be reduced with trees acting as a windbreak. This hour and a half long program is going to prepare you to take the best care of your valuable trees this coming winter. Some of the topics covered will be:

• Effective winter watering
• Mulching
• Proper tree wrapping for protection during freezes
• When to prune
• And more!

Please register at https://williamson.agrilife.org/program-registration/. The cost for this program is $10.00, payable at the door with cash or a check. We do not accept credit cards or electronic payments. If you have any questions regarding this program, please contact 512-943-3300 or email pam.lovelace@ag.tamu.edu.

Dr. Stephanie Adams is a tree pathologist and an ISA Board Certified Master Arborist (BCMA) with more than 24 years of extensive field and lab expertise working with trees and landscape plants. Dr. Adams joined the Texas A&M Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology in 2024 and is the state Tree Specialist for the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. Dr. Adams holds a B.S. in Botany with a minor in Urban Forestry from Western Illinois University, an M.S. in Plant Pathology from the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in Forest Tree Pathology from the University of Florida’s School of Forestry.