Recommendation · lived experience
Engaged · tree-care specialist · call for arboriculture work
Recovered from PDF receipt OCR (vision API skipped PDFs, so this took a manual receipt-read to surface). Engaged August 2025 for $1,500 Beech Leaf Disease macro-injection treatment on Trees #1, 5, 6 at the New Hope property. 40 years in business (since 1985) — rare tenure signal in the trades. Real invoice format (numbered, professional, paid-in-full receipt), real domain, real address. The tree-care specialist slot in the garden-maintenance cohort now has a vetted incumbent. Worth calling first for any future arboriculture work (pruning, pest treatment, removal, planting).
Business name
Willow Tree and Landscape Services, LLC
Address
411 South Warminster Rd., Hatboro PA 19040 · Montgomery County · ~30 mi to New Hope
Email
office@willowtreeservice.com
Tenure
"Rooting Relationships in Trees Since 1985" · 40 years in business
Specialty
Arborists / tree-care specialists · Dan-confirmed framing: this is a specialist tree-care firm, not a generic landscape company. Discovery channel: ChatGPT recommended them when Dan was searching for a fix to the "black beetle" problem on the New Hope beech trees. Per their invoice the actual diagnosis was Beech Leaf Disease (caused by the Litylenchus crenatae mccannii nematode, not a beetle — but the early-conversation framing came in via the beetle search and they landed on the correct treatment).
Discovery channel
ChatGPT recommendation — Dan searched for help with what he described as a "black beetle" affecting the beech trees; ChatGPT surfaced Willow Tree as a local arborist specialist who treats this kind of beech tree disease. Worth remembering as a contractor-discovery pattern: AI-assisted symptom-to-specialist lookup, especially for niche tree pathologies where the right vendor isn't obvious from a generic search.
Services demonstrated
Tree-pest / pathology treatment via macro-injection (Beech Leaf Disease nematode treatment, 90-95% effectiveness, 2-year cycle). Implied broader scope per company name: pruning, removal, planting, landscape services. BBB profile + ISA Certified Arborist credentials TBD on next call.
Payment methods accepted
Cash · Check · ACH · Debit or Credit Card (3% processing fee on cards). Checks payable to "Willow Tree and Landscaping Services, LLC".
Status
Engaged · tree-care specialist
6 August 2025
Beech Leaf Disease macro-injection · trees #1, 5, 6
$1,500.00
Beech Leaf Disease macro-injection treatment applied to three American or European Beech trees on the New Hope property (numbered Trees #1, 5, 6 per Willow Tree's site survey). Treatment is a nemacide injection effective for 2 years against the invasive nematode that causes the disease (90-95% effectiveness reduction per the invoice description). Ideal application window is June–mid-July; this August treatment was within the still-effective late-summer window.
Invoice #42138-I · paid in full Aug 6, 2025. Receipt PDF at pa/properties/new-hope/expenses/receipts/2025/2025-08-06_tree-surgery_$1500.00.pdf. Next treatment window: summer 2027 (2-year effectiveness cycle).
Harvest entry 2025-08-06 · category "Professional Contractor" · originally logged as just "Tree Surgery" (vendor name not captured until receipt PDF was read 25 May 2026).