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
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.
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
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
Reducing a bay tree
Here are the results of our work reducing a bay tree in a back garden in Islington. Bay trees can grow to 12m / 40 feet / four stories tall with the same width. Therefore it makes sense to keep
Removing ivy
Removing ivy has its advantages and disadvantages. Ivy flowers relatively late in the year and so is an important source of pollen. It is popular habitat for wildlife. Birds like to nest in it. According to the RSPB, peak nesting
Reducing a Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
Here we show our work reducing a Rowan, also known as a Mountain Ash. In a normal sized back garden, the customer understandably felt it had grown too congested. It was taking too much light from the rest of the
Reducing a Eucalyptus
Here we show our work reducing a Eucalyptus in someone’s back garden. The tree had grown too big for the location, and ivy was starting to engulf it. As a result it was taking too much light from the gardens
Reducing lime trees
Reducing lime trees often involves re-pollarding, i.e. reducing back to stumps. This is standard practice for maintaining lime trees. This job was different. The owner of a well known pub on Victoria Park asked us to reshape their lime trees,
Pruning an apple tree
Here we show some restorative tree work, pruning an apple tree. We did this in winter when it was dormant. Over time apple trees can become overly congested. We have thinned the tree’s canopy by pruning back to significant branches,