How to best care for your trees, shrubs, and other greenery. Learn from our tree care specialists serving the Columbia Valley including Invermere and Golden, BC.
Heavy snow and ice, as well as frozen soil conditions, can damage trees and shrubs in residential landscapes. Even areas without major snowfall experience high winds and huge fluctuations in temperatures (common in the Columbia Valley) during winter. But homeowners can lessen the adverse effects of winter weather with preventive maintenance.
A Home Ignition Zone Assessment is a vital step in helping to identify hazards in order to reduce the risk of fire on your property. Green Leaf Tree Services has many years of experience providing prescribed FireSmart treatments for residential property owners in the Columbia Valley. Our in-house Local Fire Smart Representative can provide an assessment of your property or entire neighborhood. A detailed report will provide actionable steps for a property owner to start reducing their risk right away. FireSmart is not an all or nothing approach and can often be an actionable plan spread out in time in order to meet the recommendations. With wildfire seasons becoming longer and more intense the time to start preparing is now. Give us a call today to arrange a FireSmart assessment for any property in the Columbia Valley. We are experts at removing and pruning trees to meet the FireSmart guidelines and can provide our expertise to help you with your FireSmart project.
Factors Considered When Determining the Cost of a Tree Removal:
Most factors, to some degree, are tied with how they affect the amount of time that is required to complete the tree removal process.
More dangerous jobs require more time to complete; Trees that are in a poor location will require more time to remove, and trees that are above homes or near other structures often involve rigging (lowering sections of wood with ropes, arborist blocks and pulleys) which will require more time to remove. Anything that takes more time, costs more money. Also equipment costs come into play. Often there no other options to safely remove a tree other than employing the use of a crane which will also add a significant cost to the project.
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Pruning a Willow tree at a historic site. One of the most common questions we field is when is the proper time to prune a tree. While this can be an important question, I believe the more important question should be, why are we wanting to prune the tree? Aesthetics, dead wood removal, clearance from structures or a reduction in size are reasons for pruning. It is best to keep in mind that pruning a tree can be very harmful if done improperly. It is best to seek the advise of an ISA Certified arborist when looking for consultation about the health and well-being of your trees. The attached picture is of a Weeping Willow we pruned at Kinsmen Beach in Invermere in order to remove deadwood and to raise the crown for clearance. Give us a call to have your trees assessed by an ISA Certified Arborist today. Beware of those claiming experience but no credentials as often poor experience leads to long term damage to trees.
View enhancement - Windermere BC
Often, views are obscured over time by encroaching vegetation. We are experts at properly pruning and or selectively removing trees to ensure those million dollar views are maintained. The attached photo is a before and after view from our clients deck in Windermere BC. It is very important for the health of the trees to access the canopies without the use of spurs (spikes used to ascend).
To help maintain the health of your trees and to enhance your views make sure to hire professionally certified Arborists and ensure they don't climb your trees using spurs!
For any outdoor stone work or landscape installation, we recommend Set in Stone Landscape Construction.
Fruit Tree PruningFrom now until just before bud break is the best time to prune those fruit trees! Let us get those overgrown fruit trees into shape before the growing season arrives! Also now is the time to spray dormant oil on all fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs to help protect from over-wintering insects and disease.
Minimize usage of those nasty pesticides and take advantage of Dormant Spraying. Dormant spraying refers to spraying during the season of the year when deciduous trees and shrubs are leafless, and buds are in the overwintering, dormant condition. Materials applied as dormant sprays include horticulturals oils (dormant oil) and lime sulphur. Horticultural oils mix with water to form a milky emulsion. After the water evaporates, a thin layer of oil is left on the tree. Any overwintering stages of insects such as eggs or pupae, when sprayed with dormant oil, will suffocate. Some examples of these insects are scales, mites, aphids and eggs of moths, such as leafrollers. We will begin spraying in March 2014 prior to buds swelling.
In order to accommodate a new gas-line installation at Terravista in Windermere, BC, Green Leaf was commissioned to remove a number of large Douglas Fir trees in very close proximity to the condos. Mike provided this birds-eye view of one of the removals from last week. Check out the video...
Green Leaf was commissioned to remove a large Spruce tree at Panorama resort back in 2009. A roof had been built around the tree and therefore there was no room for material to fall and very little margin for error. We safely rigged the tree down in sections and removed all debris from site with no damage to the customers home or property. A precision removal.
Green Leaf Tree Services is a small family run business located in the Columbia Valley. We are trained and certified arborists who pride ourselves on providing the best possible care for our clients trees and properties.
We are constantly working to raise the bar on our services. If you have any questions or concerns about your experience, please let us know.
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