Tree health care
Tree health care Vancouver Island
Why it is browning, and whether it comes back.
What tree health care involves
Tree health care on Vancouver Island is dominated by one question right now: why is that cedar going brown from the top. A diagnostic visit identifies what is actually happening — drought stress, root damage, compaction, a pest, or simply a tree at the end of its site’s ability to support it.
What is included
- Diagnosis from crown, stem, root collar and site conditions
- A straight answer on whether the tree recovers, holds, or declines
- Soil, mulching and watering recommendations where they will actually help
- A staged plan when several trees are involved and not all can be saved
- A follow-up look the next season, at no charge, on anything we are watching
Who it suits
Cedars browning from the top, recently exposed Douglas-fir, trees that have had roots cut for a driveway or a trench, and anything that changed after construction.
Worth knowing afterwards
Most declining trees on this coast are not sick — they are thirsty, root-damaged or standing somewhere that no longer suits them. That is worth knowing before anyone sells you a treatment.
Tree health care
Questions about tree health care
Western red cedar across east Vancouver Island has been dying back after a run of dry summers, and it shows first as browning at the branch tips and the top of the crown. A tree at the flagging stage can still recover if it gets water at the root zone; one that has gone grey and brittle from the top down will not.
Often, and usually with water, mulch and taking load off the crown rather than anything injected. What it needs depends on which of the five or six common causes is the real one, which is what the visit is for.
A Douglas-fir that grew inside a group grew for the wind loads it felt inside that group. Take its shelter away and it is suddenly carrying much more, on a root plate it never built for. It is a real and common problem here, and it is worth assessing.
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Get a price for tree health care.
Send a photo and a postcode. We will tell you whether it is a job, a permit question, or something that can safely be left alone.
Quotes are free, and we come and look at the tree before we price it.