My focus is based on evaluation, education and pruning as they relate to maintaining tree health, safety and appearance.

Consultation

• Tree health evaluations and recommendations
• Plant identification
• Natural history interpretation of individual sites
• Pruning theory and instruction

Fine Pruning

– Crown Cleaning: removing dead, damaged, diseased and weak wood.

– Crown Thinning: select removal of canopy branches, including:

• End weight reduction of branches to improve strength.
• Light penetration for interior plant health.
• Air circulation for reducing risk of disease.
• Enhance appearance.

– Branch Thinning: select branch size reduction.

Pruning Instruction

Need help understanding the principles of assessing what your landscape trees or shrubs need and how to get started? I can help by providing detailed instruction of the best method to prune your woody plants.  I often walk the client through the process, prune one half of one, or more plants, allow them as much time as necessary to finish, returning to discuss their efforts and finish if asked. This approach allows those that want to improve their skills on their own plants to do so. It also allows people to better understand what to expect from and how to evaluate professional work proposals on their landscape plants.

Any questions?  Please take a look at the FAQs page before contacting me.  Thank you!