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Author: Luke

Reducing a Cordyline palm

Here we show the results of our labour reducing a Cordyline palm. Also known as cabbage palms, these trees are originally from New Zealand. They can grow to about thirty feet, which is about the height of a three storey

Luke June 20, 2022June 23, 2022 Blog, Professional tree pruning No Comments Read more

Reducing a pine tree

Here we show our work reducing a pine tree. They provide year round colour and privacy, as well as being popular with the birds. They also give welcome shade from the summer sun, and can smell good. Click here for

Luke June 17, 2022June 23, 2022 Blog, Professional tree pruning No Comments Read more

Pruning wisteria

Here we show our work pruning wisteria. It is very hardy, and grows quickly. Properly maintained, it can be magnificent. Left unchecked, it can quickly get out of control. In some cases it can grow through closed windows, and clog

Luke June 15, 2022June 27, 2022 Blog, Professional tree pruning No Comments Read more

Reducing an ash tree

Here we show our work reducing an ash tree. It was early May, and the tree was about to come into leaf. Ash grow back relatively quickly and will take a pollard. This is a heavy reduction, removing all leaf

Luke June 8, 2022June 23, 2022 Blog, Professional tree pruning No Comments Read more

Reshaping holly trees

Here you can see our work reshaping two high profile holly trees in a north London conservation area. Although perhaps not immediately obvious due to the angle of the before photo on the left above (looking up at the trees

Luke May 7, 2021June 23, 2022 Blog, Professional tree pruning No Comments Read more

Reducing an oak tree

“Reduce back to previous reduction points, maintaining shorter branches; crown clean (remove deadwood and epicormic shoots); remove all cuttings”. That’s what we’d agreed with the customer. It was a relatively big task: two days for three men. Two climbers in

Luke April 30, 2021June 23, 2022 Blog, Professional tree pruning No Comments Read more

Reducing a Eucalyptus tree

Eucalyptus trees thrive in London’s climate. Being evergreen, they provide year round colour. They also grow fast, and grow back relatively quickly after being reduced. Here we show our work reducing a Eucalyptus tree on Tufnell Park Road. It had

Luke February 2, 2021June 23, 2022 Blog, Professional tree pruning No Comments Read more

Re-pollarding lime trees

Lime trees are often maintained as ‘pollards’. This is where a tree has grown too big for the location. It is then fairly heavily reduced by pruning back to bare stumps. The tree then produces new shoots from those stumps.

Luke January 26, 2021June 23, 2022 Blog, Professional tree pruning No Comments Read more

Reducing a London plane tree

Here we are reducing a London plane tree. Q: What is London’s most common tree? A: This is, after extensive planting during Victorian times. They are easy to find in London’s roads and parks. They also produce fine filaments that

Luke January 21, 2021June 23, 2022 Blog, Professional tree pruning No Comments Read more

Reducing a willow tree

Willows grow back relatively quickly. We’d reduced this one two years previously. Here are the before and after photos showing our work reducing a willow. Someone else had pollarded this tree (cut back to bare stumps) before we got to

Luke January 15, 2021June 23, 2022 Blog, Professional tree pruning No Comments Read more
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