Tree Surgery - Caring for your trees
Due to our love of trees and passion to retain as many as possible, we have come to specialise in tree pruning, crown reductions and tree aesthetics, as we know how hard it can be to live in close proximity with trees in an urban environment.
Depending on the age, species, location and health of your tree, specific types of pruning may be necessary to help you not only live in close proximity to it; but also to help you to enjoy its natural beauty and the wildlife it attracts for years to come. The correct pruning of trees is something we take particular pride in and if it’s done properly, it should enable you to enjoy your trees without the worry or huge expense of complete tree removal in the future. The end goal for us is to ensure we leave our clients completely happy, with a healthy and natural looking tree, enabling them to exist together in harmony.
Crown Reduction - A form of pruning in which you decrease the size of the crown whilst, keeping a natural shape and retaining the trees beauty. A great way to manage a tree that’s getting too big for its space.
Crown Thinning - A form of pruning in which you remove smaller individual branches from the crown to reduce the density, but not the overall extent of the tree. A great way of letting more light in beneath the tree.
Deadwooding/Crown Clean - The removal of dead, dying, damaged or diseased branches from the crown of a tree. Usually needed in public areas to reduce risk of falling branches.
Crown Lifting - The removal of lower branches of a tree, increasing the gap to the base of the crown. A great way of allowing more light under a mature tree or giving yourself some head space to do the mowing under a smaller tree.
End Limb Weight Reduction - Reducing the end of an over-extended limb in length therefore reducing the end weight of the branch. This should decrease the risk of future possible branch failure.
Hazardous Branch Removal - The removal of a broken, damaged or hung up branch from the crown of a tree. Sometimes high winds, a storm or a big snow fall can partially break a branch but it doesn’t make it to the ground.
Pollarding - Pollarding is the removal of all the trees branches/crown a certain height above ground level, sometimes leaving some framework branches but usually just leaving the trunk of the tree. It used to be a method of cultivating wood but now it’s used as a good way to manage mature trees close to buildings.
Formative Pruning - The pruning of young trees to modify their form at maturity, either to avoid future structural defects (for instance by singling a twin-stem) or to create a desired tree form.
Fruit Tree Pruning - Pruning fruit trees to promote or maintain flowering and fruitfulness by preventing the overcrowding of shoots, regulating the number and position of fruit buds, encouraging new shoot growth where it is desired and restricting the height or crown diameter of the tree as desired.
Retrenchment Pruning - Is reducing the crown in late-mature trees to anticipate or keep pace with decline or Die-back of the outer crown. A tree’s crown naturally retrenches after it reaches late maturity. So depending on the tree and what stage of retrenchment it’s in, we could either speed up the process or make the already outer dead crown safe by removing or shortening the branches.
Further Tree Care Advice
Whilst we have tried to include as much information as possible here regarding the various methods of pruning trees, there is no substitute for a site visit from our qualified arborists. In person, we are able to quickly assess a tree and discuss in full the appropriate course of action needed. Our tree surgery services cover the whole of the Cotswolds and we offer free no obligation quotes.
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