Trimming & Pruning | AVS Landscaping

Discover the Importance of Tree Maintenance

Trees may appear to be minimal maintenance when it comes to landscaping since they normally don’t need additional water, fertilizer, or care, plus they enhance the aesthetics and value of a home or business. To maintain their health, beauty, and safety, trees do need some maintenance.

Ensure the health and beauty of your trees with our professional tree trimming services. Our team provides expert pruning and shaping!

Benefits of Trimming Trees Include

Promotes Tree Health

Regular trimming removes dead, damaged, and diseased branches, preventing the spread of harmful insects and decay organisms that can compromise the health of the tree.

Improves Safety

Overgrown branches can be hazardous, posing a risk to nearby buildings, power lines, or pedestrians. Regular tree trimming helps minimize this risk and protect your property and the people around it.

Enhances Aesthetics

Pruned trees contribute to an appealing landscape. Regular trimming maintains the shape and structure of the tree, enhancing the overall look of your property.

Increases Sun Exposure and Air Circulation

Tree trimming allows for better sun exposure and improved air circulation throughout the tree and underlying landscape, which can enhance the tree’s health and vitality.

Boosts Fruit Production

If you have fruit trees, regular trimming can enhance fruit production. Pruning helps to stimulate the growth of spurs, which will produce fruit the following year.

Supports Landscape Care

Regular tree trimming can aid the care of your entire landscape. For example, removing overgrown branches can allow more sunlight to reach your lawn or garden, promoting the growth of other plants.

Trimming Techniques

Canopy & Crown Thinning

This process is commonly used to make a tree stronger and more capable of handling bad weather. By carefully choosing which branches to cut off, we can let more light reach the tree and make it less likely to get damaged by strong winds. Having fewer branches means the wind can’t push against the tree as hard. The shape of a tree is really important for its overall health, so we have to be careful when we’re doing this type of trimming. Once a tree is fully grown, if we cut too much or the wrong way, it can hurt the tree, stop it from growing, or even make it unsteady.

Crown Reduction

Through thoughtful trimming of back branches down to smaller ones, the practice of crown reduction lessens a tree’s height or how far its branches spread out. We use this technique on fruit trees to help them soak up more sunlight and make better-quality fruit.

Formative or Directional Pruning

This tree trimming process is where branches are cut in a way that guides the future growth of the tree in a specific direction. This technique is especially useful when you want to keep a tree’s growth away from buildings, power lines, or other structures. The process involves identifying and removing branches that are growing towards these areas, while leaving those growing in a safe direction intact.

Crown Canopy Lifting

This method involves taking off the lower branches of a tree to make room for people and cars to pass by, or to fit around buildings and parts of the street. It might seem like a lot, but when doing this kind of crown canopy trimming, we usually don’t remove branches any higher than one-third of the tree’s total height. This helps keep the tree healthy.

Heading Back or Topping

This process involves cutting branches back to a small stub, bud, or a side branch. However, the remaining branch might not be sturdy or large enough to support new branches. Therefore, careful judgment is needed to balance trimming needs with the tree’s health and structural stability.

Vista Pruning

This type of trimming is done to create a sort of “window” in the tree that you can see through, and it’s done very carefully. This way, homeowners can still look out into their yard without losing the natural privacy and protection that trees give.

Pollarding

Pollarding involves frequently cutting back deciduous trees to their main stems during their inactive season. This type of pruning is particularly important for young trees, helping them get used to this intense trimming process.

Tree Trimming Safety

The potential safety hazards of not trimming trees on a regular basis:

Risk of Falling Branches

If trees aren’t regularly maintained, overgrown or weak branches can break off, posing a danger to people, pets, and property below. Regular professional trimming helps manage this risk.

Fire Hazard

Branches that are too close to power lines can cause sparks that might ignite a fire. Regular professional trimming can maintain a safe distance between trees and power lines.

Visibility Issues

Trees that aren’t properly maintained can obstruct visibility for drivers and pedestrians, especially near roads and intersections. This can lead to potential accidents. Professional tree trimming can ensure clear sightlines.

Pest Prevention

Untrimmed trees can become a breeding ground for pests and invasive species, which could be harmful to the tree and potentially infest your home. Regular professional trimming can help catch and handle pest issues early.

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