Tree Care in Castaic, CA

Your trees in Castaic are about 34 years old, planted when these neighborhoods were built in the early 1990s. That means your Coast Live Oaks and California Sycamores are entering a critical maturity phase. They've survived decades of our warm, dry climate with only 17 inches of annual rain, but the biggest threat often comes from the lawn sprinkler. A system that runs for 15 minutes every day is the worst thing for these trees. It encourages shallow roots because the water never penetrates past the top few inches. Your mature trees need deep, infrequent watering to survive our high drought risk and develop the strong root systems that anchor them during our 3-4 annual storm events.