Tree Surgery
Why Choose Tree Surgery?
Choosing professional tree care ensures your trees receive the expertise and understanding they need to stay healthy, safe and beautiful for years to come. Trees have natural rhythms, and working with these cycles – not against them – is crucial for their health and your results. The timing of tree surgery can mean the difference between a tree that thrives and one that struggles.
Our qualified arborists know how to assess a tree’s condition, plan the right approach and carry out work safely and responsibly, protecting both your property and the surrounding environment. We understand how different species respond to pruning, the structural weaknesses that develop over time and how to identify early signs of disease or decline before they become serious problems. That’s why we tailor our methods to each individual tree, considering its species, age, health, location and your specific goals.
Professional tree surgery also means having the right equipment and insurance to work safely at height, near buildings, or close to power lines – situations where inexperienced work can be dangerous or costly. We carry full public liability insurance and use industry-standard equipment, from ropes and harnesses for climbing work to specialised machinery for larger removals.
With professional tree care, you’re not just maintaining your trees – you’re investing in their long-term wellbeing, the safety of your property, and the beauty of your landscape for generations to come.
Tree Surgery Services
Crown Reduction: Managing Size Without Losing Character
When a tree has outgrown its space, crown reduction offers a solution that maintains the tree’s natural form while bringing it back to manageable proportions. Perhaps your oak is blocking too much light or an ash has grown dangerously close to your home. We carefully reduce the overall size of the crown, making precise cuts that encourage healthy regrowth and preserve the tree’s natural shape.
Done properly, a reduced crown looks entirely natural. Done poorly, it creates ugly stubs and weak regrowth. The difference lies in understanding where and how to cut.
Restoring light to gardens or windows
Reducing wind resistance and storm risk
Managing trees near buildings or boundaries
Maintaining trees in confined spaces
Crown Lifting: Creating Clearance Below
Crown lifting removes the lower branches to raise the canopy, creating clear space underneath.
Whether you need clearance for vehicles, pedestrians or simply want to reclaim the space beneath a tree, crown lifting transforms how you can use the area. It also improves sight lines for driveways and reduces the risk of branches interfering with buildings or fences.
We’re careful not to over-lift, which can unbalance a tree and spoil its proportions. The goal is clearance that looks intentional, not excessive.
Pollarding & Coppicing: Traditional Techniques for Modern Gardens
These ancient woodland management techniques have a place in contemporary tree care. Pollarding involves cutting back to the same points regularly, creating a distinctive framework of thick branches with seasonal regrowth. Coppicing cuts back to ground level, producing multiple stems from the base.
Both techniques dramatically control size and can rejuvenate aging trees. They’re particularly suited to willows, limes, and plane trees, creating sculptural forms while providing regular crops of young wood. However, once started, these management regimes need continuing – a pollarded tree left unmanaged becomes structurally dangerous.
If you have pollarded trees that haven’t been maintained, we can restore the cycle safely.
Deadwooding: Removing Risk, Preserving Safety
Dead, dying, or diseased branches don’t just look unsightly, they’re potential hazards waiting to fall. Deadwooding removes this material while the tree is still standing, giving you control over when and where it comes down.
We balance safety with ecology. Dead wood provides vital habitat for insects, fungi and birds, so where a dead branch poses no risk, we might recommend leaving it. However, deadwood hanging over paths, driveways, seating areas, or buildings, we would recommend removing it.
Our climbing inspections identify problems you can’t see from the ground such as splits, cavities, weak unions, and branches that look solid but are actually hollow. Prevention is always better than waiting for storm damage.
Tree Removal & Felling: When It's Time to Say Goodbye
Not every tree can be saved, and not every tree should be. Sometimes removal is the responsible choice – whether due to disease, dangerous positioning, construction needs or a tree that’s simply in the wrong place.
We approach every removal with care. In confined spaces, we dismantle trees piece by piece using ropes and rigging systems, lowering each section safely to avoid damage to your property. Where space allows, we can straight-fell, which is quicker and more cost-effective.
Either way, we leave your site clean and clear, with all waste removed unless you’d like to keep logs for firewood or milling.
When removal makes sense:
Trees with structural failure or advanced decay
Dead or dying trees beyond recovery
Dangerous positioning near buildings or power lines
Making way for construction or development
Wrong species in the wrong location
Stump Grinding: Finishing the Job Properly
A tree stump left in the ground is more than an eyesore – it’s a trip hazard, an obstacle for mowing, and an invitation for honey fungus to establish. Stump grinding removes the stump and major roots below ground level, leaving you with wood chips and clear ground.
Our professional grinding equipment makes short work of stumps of any size, getting well below the surface so you can turf over, replant, or pave the area. The resulting wood chips can be removed or left as mulch – your choice.
Complete removal means complete freedom to use your space however you want.
"Madelaine and Lawrence have been outstanding from first contact. They actioned the work on an ancient apple tree, very large flowering currant bush and magnolia tree. We weren't in when they did the work and when we returned it was like the fairies had been! It was all done to an exceptional standard and there was not a trace of them having been there! I can't recommend them highly enough and will be calling them back every year for annual maintenance."
