Tree Care Tips & Guides
Straight answers on tree removal, trimming, and storm care for North and Central Alabama homeowners.
Most tree advice online is written for everywhere, which means it is written for nowhere. A dormant-pruning window that makes sense in Ohio is wrong here by six weeks. A list of hazard species written for the Midwest will not mention water oak, which is the third most numerous tree in Alabama and the one we are called out to most.
These guides are written for this state and this part of it, the Cumberland Plateau, the Valley and Ridge, the Piedmont and the Tennessee Valley, and for the things that actually take trees down here: shallow soil over rock, a tornado season that peaks in April and again in late autumn, June and July microbursts, drought years that bring hypoxylon canker and pine beetles behind them.
Where we cite a date, a figure or a pest status, it comes from the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, the Alabama Forestry Commission, the USDA Forest Service, the Geological Survey of Alabama or the National Weather Service. Where something could not be verified, we have left it out rather than guessed.
If your question is not answered here, ask us. A Certified Arborist looks at every assessment, and a fair number of them end with us telling someone their tree is fine.
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