Here’s a recent example of our work reducing a white plum tree this April. We’d reduced it before, in 2022, so the job was to remove and reduce four years of regrowth, reducing back to previous reduction points. The trick
Pruning a pear tree
Here you can see the results of our pruning a pear tree. It had been reduced before. So our approach was to reduce back to previous reduction points, maintaining smaller branches. We took the after photo from a bit nearer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.