Tree Pruning

Pruning is where the difference between a certified arborist and a guy with a chainsaw shows up years later. Topping and over-thinning make a tree look tidy for one season, then trigger a mess of weak, fast growth attached at bad angles, along with decay where the big cuts were made. You pay twice: once for the bad prune, and again for the removal when the tree fails.

Done properly, pruning is subtraction with a reason behind every cut. Crown thinning to let light and wind through to the lawn and garden below. Raising the canopy for clearance. View windowing to open a sightline to the mountains without gutting the tree. Deadwooding to take out the limbs that actually pose a risk. Each cut is placed to heal cleanly and to steer future growth.

We prune to ANSI A300 standards, which is the industry benchmark for how and where to make a cut, under the eye of an ISA Certified Arborist. That matters most on the mature, high-value trees that give a Bow Valley property its character, because those are the ones you cannot simply replace.

The result is a tree that looks like nobody touched it, which is the point. Better structure, more light where you want it, and the views you bought the property for, without the regrowth problem that topping creates.

Book an arborist consultation and we will walk the trees with you, tell you honestly what should and should not be cut, and quote the work.