Tree Service in Montgomery, OH

Tree Service in Montgomery means working in a city that has thought hard about its trees. The Arbor Day Foundation has named Montgomery a Tree City USA every year since 1997, and in 2009 it became a Sterling Tree City USA, at the time only the sixth community in Ohio to earn that recognition. The city employs a staff arborist who writes a running series of tree tips for residents, and it keeps a Tree Manual at City Hall that sets out how street trees should be watered, pruned and mulched.

That shapes what Montgomery owners ask of a tree company. People here want to know that pruning cuts are made at the branch collar, that nobody will top their trees, and that the crew won't drive equipment over the roots of a tree they have been nurturing for twenty years. Those are reasonable expectations, and they match the ANSI A300 standard that governs tree pruning in the United States.

The street tree program

Montgomery plants street trees in the tree lawn through an application program. The owner pays a $150 co-pay toward the tree and planting, the city picks a species that fits the tree lawn and stays clear of utilities and sight lines, and the city plants it. After planting, the owner is responsible for its care under the Tree Manual, including pruning. If you have a young street tree from the program, it is worth having its structure checked in the first few years. A little corrective pruning while branches are pencil-thick prevents the co-dominant leaders that split in storms later.

Older settlement, established yards

Montgomery was settled in 1795, one of the oldest settlements in Hamilton County, and was laid out as a town in 1802 along what became the Montgomery Pike, now U.S. 22. Today the Census reports that 90.1% of homes are owner-occupied, with a median value of $545,100, and 95.4% of residents lived in the same house a year earlier. That kind of stability shows in the trees: large oaks, maples and beeches that have grown with the houses, and landscape trees that need regular care to stay in proportion.

What we do for Montgomery homes

• Crown cleaning and thinning on mature shade trees, done to A300
• Structural pruning of young street and yard trees
• Removing declining trees before they become hazards over the house
• Taking out dead ash, which emerald ash borer has killed across Ohio
• Stump grinding and cleanup that leaves the lawn ready for seed
• Advice on which yard trees are worth keeping when you remodel or add on

Before you plant or remove in the tree lawn

Because the city decides the species and placement of program trees, check with Montgomery Public Works before removing or replacing a tree in the tree lawn. For trees on your own lot, we can give you a written plan that covers every tree on the property.

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