My Services
Years of experience - for hire today.
I have been growing trees at my farm for almost two decades. I have a horticulture diploma and I’m a certified arborist. For the last 15 years I have been working in the tree industry, in this time I have learnt a lot before bringing my skills and experience to my customers. I’m available to provide the following services to help you prune or relocate your tree the right way. Not to mention, spider control for residential spraying.
Spider Control (spraying)
Licensed exterminator, offering well priced spider spraying services for spider control around residential property.
Tree Relocation
If there is a tree in your yard you would like relocated I would be happy a look at it. Things to consider is the accessibility for my truck and tree spade, the ground conditions, and locates for underground utilities.
Tree pruning
I have a good knowledge of tree and shrub pruning. Pruning trees for the first 10- 15 years after planting is crucial for trees to reach their full potential. Unpruned trees have the potential for branch failure due to poor attachment and or too vigorous growth, unbalanced crown, too many leaders competing for dominance are just some of what i look at. Here is what I will look for and correct:
Remove Temporary Branches.
Temporary branches are those that are at the bottom third of the tree. These must be pruned back to slow there growth so they don’t become so big as to leave a large wound when it's time for them to be removed. We leave temporaries on for a time to help build trunk taper and strength. They eventually should be removed, up to six or seven feet up trunk to allow for foot traffic or mowers to under tree. Or I may take the very bottom temporaries off to begin the healing process
Select Scaffold Branches.
Next I will look for and pick out main permanent scaffold branches. I will look at these for there size. A side branch should be only a third the size of the trunk it's growing out of. If it’s getting fatter than the third size I will slow its growth by heading back the branch and taking a few side branches off it.
Finish Pruning
Next is to look for branches that are growing around the permanents and remove any that are too close to them. There should be at least six to eight inches between branches especially if they are growing out the same direction.
I will then look for water sprouts, crossing branches, aggressive branches are too long and that need to be redirected.
In doing these pruning cuts I can only take out about 25% of the tree’s crown for that year so not to stress the tree.
