Pruning is an art, a necessity, a good idea, somehing often done poorly, too late or - sadly - never.
Pruning is at the heart of our business.
We do a lot of work for large Condominium Associations as well a larger Residential properties. We work closely with Homeowner Associations and Property Management Companies to keep the Owner's considerable investment in designed landscape elements looking good , healthy and controlled.
Major Seasonal Pruning is normally done in Fall and Spring and can take several days, depending on the size and number of trees and plants on the property.
Above: A properly-pruned condominium landscape bed, with two mature Vine Maples, Laurel, Pieris Japonica and Hydrangea, all ready to face winter rains, wind and freezing temperatures.
It is during Seasonal Pruning that we go after the "4 d's"...
Dead
Diseased
Dying
Dangerous
...limbs, sections or branches of trees and large woody shrubs and plants. Dead, diseased and dying tissue can eventually kill a valuable tree, or spread disease to nearby trees or other plants.
Examples of Dangerous issues might include low hanging limbs, wind or decay-caused major cracks in a tree trunk, vehicle or pedesrian line of sight along an entry drive curve or impeded access to a Fire Hydrant. We also keep plants and trees from touching each other, fences, siding, roofs, soffits, gas heater exhausts and growing across gateways or entry porches.
Pruning - properly done - helps a tree look like a tree, and shrub like a shrub, and so on. We call this "Species-Appropriate Pruning. (We don't, for example, encourage inappropriate pruning, such as "Lollipop" shearing of large deciduous trees).
Many of our properties also contract with us for Monthly Pruning, to keep everything looking "shipshape" during the growth cycle between April and October. This is normally one day per month. We also respond to "Call Outs" for downed/split trees or large limbs due to windstorms or heavy snow year round.
If you have some concerns about at tree or a group of trees, please do call us for a no-charge on site consultation.
Nextup: a discussion about how trees, some texture, stone and color can "make" a landscape memorable...
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