A well-planned trim removes what's failing or in the way while leaving the tree's natural form intact - and on a hundred-year-old tree, getting that judgment right matters more than on a young one still finding its shape.
Considerably. A young tree can handle a more aggressive shaping cut and recover quickly. An old one has a fixed structure that took decades to establish, so the work shifts toward removing what's dead or hazardous and leaving the rest alone rather than reshaping anything.
People tend to use the words interchangeably, though the work behind them differs. Trimming is about the tree's exterior - its shape and how much clearance it needs. Pruning digs into the interior instead, taking out dead, damaged or weakly attached branches with the tree's health as the goal, not its outline.
Most visits involve both, and we'll explain the split before starting.
A healthy tree can typically part with up to a quarter of its live growth in one sitting without issue. One that's already dealing with some decay or a rough storm history in its past usually comes out ahead with a lighter touch instead.
The neighbourhood's original landscape plan, laid out by the same firm that founded Sheridan Nurseries, means a lot of the mature canopy has been growing for close to a century with minimal disturbance. That's a rare asset in the city, but it also means these trees have had a hundred years to develop old wounds, decay pockets and structural quirks that a younger tree simply hasn't had time for yet.
Reach us at (647) 370-3917 with your address and what you've noticed, and a visit gets scheduled toward a written price. Curious what else we do? It's all on the home page.
A handful of additional jobs come up regularly enough here to mention as well.
A dead branch has already made its decision - it's coming down eventually, the only open question is when and onto what. Getting ahead of it before that answer arrives on its own is the whole point of this service.
View Dead Branch Removal
Storm damage on a hundred-year-old tree can mean a lot more wood coming down than expected, and we treat every call that way until we've actually seen the site.
View Emergency Storm Damage Cleanup
Removal is the last recommendation we make, not the first, but when a tree's decline or damage has gone past the point of saving, we handle the whole job - cutting, hauling and cleanup in one visit.
View Tree Removal
Outgrowing its original footprint isn't, by itself, a reason to remove a tree that's spent a hundred years getting to this size. Thinning and reduction offer a middle path - scaling the canopy back into proportion while keeping the tree that took generations to build.
View Crown Thinning and Canopy Reduction
A cable installed between two major limbs takes the load off a weak union before it fails - often the difference between keeping a tree that's stood for a century and losing it over one bad storm.
View Tree Cabling and Bracing
Left alone, a stump sticks around far longer than anyone wants to wait, and one from a tree that spent a century building out its root system is no exception. A single grinding visit takes it down below grade, freeing up the spot the same day.
View Stump Grinding and RemovalExplain the situation to (647) 370-3917, and we'll put together a written number after we've had a chance to see it in person.
Species, size and roughly how old the tree might be - send that over and expect a reply within a business day. Or just tell us over the phone: (647) 370-3917.
