The Services We Provide

Planting An essential part of our services, we are more than pleased to assist with the selection and actual planting of you new tree or hedge. Getting this part right to critical to ensuring you have the right plant for the location in which it is needed. Plant choice has to take into account such factors as space available, colour characteristics needed, fruiting properties required, evergreen or not, to name but a few, but it is really important to ensure the right plant is selected so you get the optimum benefit from it. Crown Reduction Sometimes a tree has just quite simply grown too large for the space it currently occupies and rather then remove it all together, the canopy can be reduced to a more appropriate size. Additionally, it may be that there are some safety issues in which case again rather than remove the tree, just by reducing it it is possible to manage the risks appropriately and responsibly. Crown Thinning A common cause of complaint about a tree is that it is casting too much shadow onto a specific area. An often suitable compromise to felling or a reduction is to thin the canopy thus allowing more light through. This approach is also very useful when perhaps the tree has overloaded limbs or is becoming more prone to wind damage, as the branches can be lightened to remove some of the physical weight that may be stressing any limbs. Thinning will also then allow the wind to pass through the canopy as opposed to offering such a large “sail” effectively. Crown lifting If you are the owner of a tree or hedge overhanging a road, footpath or bridleway you have responsibilities to ensure that the branches are not allowed to become lower than specific heights. If they do become lower, your local Highways department will possibly instruct you to lift the canopy or remove the branches, or they will do the work for you and bill you for the pleasure! But on a more positive note raising the canopy can also allow you to get more light into a garden or remove any branches off buildings or cables or any other obstacle. Crown Cleaning Over the years the canopy of the trees or hedges can quite often become congested, untidy and benefit enormously from periodic cleaning. All plants need to breath and benefit from light so anything that can be done to improve airflows and passage of light has a very positive effect on trees and hedges. Ivy is a very good example, especially on trees, whereby the Ivy slowly envelopes the tree, not directly killing it but gradually diminishing the vitality and health of the tree. At the very least the Ivy should be severed as low as possible and ideally removed altogether. The removal of crossing and rubbing branches is prudent pruning practice, along with the removal of any dead wood, especially when above any potential hazards, for example roads or footpaths. Felling and Removal When the time does come, the skilful removal of any tree is vital, whether by directional felling if space permits, or by modern dismantle and lowering techniques. Cranes and mobile elevated working platforms may even be required. Stump Grinding Any tree or hedge removed will invariably leave a stump behind, and this may not necessarily be required to be removed as well. However once the stump has been removed the complete area can be freed up for replanting of the replacement or to make way for other works. At the very least though once the stump is gone it will not represent a trip hazard, and the subject of many curses as to why it was never removed! Hedge Cutting An often overlooked aspect of any garden, but is in fact a very integral part of every garden. To miss a trim one season can often just build up problems for future years, as many trees that are hedges can not be hard pruned without drastic results that the tree does not recover from. Equally many hedges look their best by being regularly trimmed to help them keep their form. Topiary is a good example of this as the shapes created, even if formal lines, only look good if regularly trimmed. Clearance Never be afraid to start again, either in sections or the complete garden. Sometimes the tree and hedge just causes too many problems and it is important to realise that sometimes the only solution is too start again. But no matter how daunting this may seem, with the right approach and planning the disruption can be minimised and the results seen quite quickly. In no time at all you will be looking back asking why it had not been done earlier. Regular and Routine Maintenance Programmes A new or established garden can easily get out of control, or just lose its sparkle or “Wow” factor for the owners. With a Maintenance Programme put in place a weight will be lifted of the owners’ shoulders as they will know that their garden, no matter what size, is now being cared for and fairly soon will be back to looking its best. Emergency Work So much can happen when we least expect, but knowing who to turn to is what matters most. If you need help, just call – we will do whatever we can to help.