Tree surgery is a practice of repairing damaged trees to restore their appearance and to arrest disease.

Injured or diseased parts are first removed, even small cavities in the bark may harbor injurious fungi and insects.

Elstow Landscapes being professional tree surgeons commonly perform many tasks in addition to surgery that are difficult for the individual gardener e.g., large-scale pruning and providing proper support when needed.

As a last resort it is sometimes necessary to actually fell a tree. This can be because of a number of reasons from a tree causing damage to property to the tree actually having damage of some sort. There are a number of different ways in which a tree can be taken down and this would depend on the surrounding environment that would dictate the best method. We can safely remove virtually any tree to ground level. We have years of experience of working with all sorts of trees and sites, including removing very large trees from very restricted sites.

Many trees in residential areas have become the subject of Tree Protection Orders, this is where the local authority has put a designation on a tree to say that it cannot be removed or worked upon without prior consent from the local authority. So long as there are valid reasons for the work being carried out to be done then there is not normally a problem getting this permission from the local authority. This process normally takes a number of weeks although in emergency cases such as dangerous trees it can be applied for and obtained in less than a week.