
Pruning an Apple tree in St. Neots, Cambridgeshire.
Last week we were in St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, pruning a small apple tree. We provided a free quotation, at a convenient time for the customer, which we then emailed to him. We are happy to send our quotations out via email, which a lot of people prefer, but for those technophobes, we also post out paper quotes! The tree was completed within the allocated time and the customer was very pleased with the end result. If you have a similar job, or any tree or hedge work requir

Reducing several Silver Birch trees in Newmarket, Cambridgeshire.
This week we were in Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, reducing several Silver Birch trees. This was a particularly difficult task, due to them being very poorly reduced several years ago by the council. The customer was not happy with their work so decided to give us an opportunity to show off our skills!The trees were reduced to our best ability (considering the state the council had left them in!) and the customer was delighted with the finished result. Apparently the locals were

Pollarding several large Horse Chestnut trees in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
This week we were in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, pollarding several large Horse Chestnut trees. We had previously reduced these trees for our client, however, this time we decided more drastic measures were needed due to them being so close to their house....some with the base of the tree only 1.5M away with several of them even touching the house! The customer didn't want to lose them all together, so we opted to pollard them to 15ft which was roughly a 50% reduction. The larg

Reducing a Weeping Willow and a Horse Chestnut in Caxton, Cambridgeshire.
Last week we were in Caxton, Cambridgeshire, reducing two large trees. One of them being a Weeping Willow, which was quite healthy and just in need of some minor tree work and TLC. The tree was reduced and thinned by carefully removing selected branches. All dead wood and crossing branches were also removed. The tree was completed by in 3 hours and we were soon onto the next one! The Horse Chestnut pictured below, had extensive die back in the crown plus the disease Bleeding