Tree Surgery

Tree surgery involves a number of disciplines that relate to tree care. These can include treating trees for disease and infestation, bracing trunks to prevent collapse, or simply trimming back a hedge to encourage healthy growth in future.

Tree surgeon is the common name for an arborist or arboriculturist. Whatever you call us, we are experts in the care and maintenance of trees and hedges. What distinguishes us from foresters is that we concentrate on the safety and health of individual trees and plants, rather than the management of entire forests and plantations — our work often involves single or small groups of trees in an urban environment.

Treatment

Trees in the UK are prone to all manner of diseases and infestation from fungus or wood-boring insects. Spotting the signs early is vital to successful treatment. There are numerous ways to treat affected trees, from chemical glazes to cutting away the affected parts.

Maintenance

Much of the maintenance involved with trees and hedges is judicious pruning by a trained professional. Early pruning can promote robust growth in a young tree, while thinning densely packed branches in older trees can reduce storm damage, and removing dead branches can encourage fresh growth in mature trees.

Felling

Sometimes treatment isn’t enough — a tree may be dead or beyond help. In such circumstances, our tree surgeons will fell the tree, either in one go or in sections depending on how it is positioned, and remove it safely from the area.

Repair

If a tree has suffered damage — in a storm, or from some sort of collision — it needn’t signal the end. Mature trees are hardy and, provided they are braced and wrapped in a timely manner, even a badly damaged tree can repair itself over time.

Your local tree surgeon

Knowledge of the local area, its flora and its conditions is a tree surgeon’s most effective tool. Based in Christchurch and covering a radius that includes Bournemouth, the New Forest and Ringwood, we know our area well. Let us pay you a visit, where we can recommend the best solution for your trees and provide a free, no-obligation quote for our services.