Tree surgery for north London from LG trees, a company based in London N16
Here’s a recent example of our work pruning a sycamore tree in Hackney. It had grown too big for the location and was taking too much light from the owners’ and neighbours’ properties. The job was: It had been several
Here’s a recent example of our work pruning a Liquidambar in Islington. We’d reduced it twice before, so this was the second time reducing it back to the previous reduction points. We also removed the grape vine that had got
Here’s a recent example of our work pruning a 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 is
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
Here you can see our work pruning 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 from below), the
Here we were pruning 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
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 pruning a Eucalyptus tree on Tufnell Park Road. It had
Lime trees are often maintained as ‘pollards’, which is one way of pruning lime trees. 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
Here we are pruning 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
Willows grow back relatively quickly. We’d reduced this one two years previously. Here are the before and after photos showing our work pruning a willow tree. Someone else had pollarded this tree (cut back to bare stumps) before we got