Arborists can provide a variety of services to help maintain your valuable investment.

1. Pruning

The arborist can determine what type of pruning is necessary to maintain or improve the health appearance and safety of your trees. These techniques include:

  · Eliminating branches that rub each other.
· Removing limbs that interfere with wires, building facades, gutters, roofs, chimneys, or windows, or that obstruct streets or pavements.
· Removing dead or weak limbs that pose a hazard or may lead to decay.
· Removing diseased or insect-infested limbs.
· Creating better structure to lessen wind resistance and reduce the potential for storm damage.
· Training young trees.
· Removing limbs damaged by adverse weather conditions.
· Thinning or removal of unnecessary branches.
· Improving the shape or silhouette of the tree.

2. Removal

Although tree removal is a last resort, there are circumstances when it is necessary. An arborist can help decide whether or not a tree should be removed. Arborists have the skills and equipment to safely and efficiently remove trees. Removal is recommended when:

· The tree is dead or dying.
· The tree is considered irreparably hazardous.
· The tree is causing an obstruction that is impossible to correct through pruning.
· The tree is crowding and causing harm to other trees.
· The tree is to be replaced by a more suitable specimen.
· The tree should be removed to allow for new construction.

3. Emergency Tree Care

Storms may cause limbs or entire trees to fail, often landing on homes, cars, other structures or other trees. The weight of storm-damaged trees is great and they can be very dangerous to remove or prune. An arborist can assist in performing the job in a safe manner, while reducing further risk of damage to your property.

4. Planting

Some arborists plant trees and most can recommend what types of trees are appropriate for a specific location. The wrong tree in the wrong location could lead to future problems due to limited growing space, insects, diseases, or poor growth.

5. Other Services

Many arborists also provide a variety of other tree care services including:

· Practising Plant Health Care, a concept of preventive maintenance to keep trees in good health, which will help the tree better defend itself against insects, disease and site problems.
· Fertilisation.
· Cabling or bracing for added support to branches with weak attachment.
· Aeration to improve root growth.
· Installation of lightning protection systems.
· Spraying or injecting to control certain insect and disease problems.

 Cette information a été produite en utilisant des documents à partir de l'ISA et du NPTC.

This information was prepared using documents from NPTC and the ISA