Professional Tree Pruning

Why Tree Pruning and Trimming Are Essential

Tree pruning and trimming are critical for not just aesthetics but also the overall health and longevity of your trees. Whether addressing co-dominant stems, overgrown branches, or weak unions, proper pruning can prevent future issues while strengthening your tree’s structure and reducing safety risks.

Our services focus on:

• Improving Tree Structure: Structural pruning encourages a single, dominant leader, reducing branch competition and eliminating weak unions or rubbing branches.

• Reducing Risk: Strategic pruning reduces the risk of branch failure, ensuring safety, especially during storms.

• Enhancing Health and Growth: Regular trimming removes dead, diseased, or overcrowded branches, allowing your tree to focus on healthy growth and development.

Our Pruning & Trimming Services

Structural Pruning

Structural pruning is essential for young trees, promoting a strong branch framework by encouraging a central leader, reducing competing branches, and addressing structural defects like co-dominant stems. Early pruning minimizes future risks and helps ensure long-term stability.

Clearance Pruning

Clearance pruning maintains safe distances between trees and nearby structures like homes, sidewalks, or utility lines. We ensure at least 10 feet of clearance from roofs and 10-12 feet from the ground, protecting your property and improving safety.

End-Weight Reduction

For mature trees, end-weight reduction reduces the size and weight of branches, managing torque loads and lowering the risk of limb failure due to wind, ice, or snow. This method preserves tree health while mitigating potential risks without resorting to harmful topping practices.

Dead Wooding

Dead or broken limbs pose hazards, especially in urban environments. Our dead wooding service removes these limbs, reducing the risk of falling branches while improving the overall health and safety of your tree.

Benefits of Pruning and Trimming

• Improved Structural Integrity: Pruning strengthens tree architecture, reducing the risk of storm damage.

• Extended Lifespan: Removing weak, diseased, or dead branches helps trees live longer and enhances your landscape’s beauty and value.

• Increased Safety: Regular trimming reduces the risk of falling branches and whole system failures, protecting people and property.

• Enhanced Aesthetics: Well-maintained trees boost your property’s curb appeal and overall value.

Why Choose Edmonds Tree & Landscape Service?

As a family-founded company, we are committed to delivering expert tree care that exceeds expectations. Our ISA Certified Arborists® adhere to ANSI A300 standards, ensuring every cut promotes your tree’s long-term health and safety.

• Local Expertise: We understand the unique needs of trees in the Columbus area.

• Safety First: Our pruning methods prioritize the safety and long-term integrity of your trees.

• Customized Care: Each tree is different. We create a pruning plan that addresses the specific needs of your trees and property.

Contact Us for Professional Tree Pruning & Trimming Services

Ready to improve the health, safety, and appearance of your trees? Contact Edmonds Tree & Landscape Service today for expert tree pruning and trimming services in Columbus, Ohio. Our ISA Certified Arborists® are here to help your trees thrive while keeping your property safe and beautiful.

At Edmonds Tree & Landscape Service, we prioritize the long-term health, safety, and beauty of your trees. With over 60 years of combined experience, our team of ISA Certified Arborists® provides expert tree pruning and trimming services tailored to your trees’ specific needs throughout Columbus and the surrounding areas. Our goal is to ensure your trees remain strong, stable, and healthy for years to come.

Before and after comparison of a tree being structurally pruned.

Before

After

Structural pruning of a young Freeman Maple, establishing a dominant central leader.

Tree pruning FAQS

  • Pruning young trees helps correct structural issues early, saving money on more complex interventions when the tree matures. For mature trees, pruning reduces the risk of whole tree or branch failure by applying end-weight reduction to high-aspect ratio, over-extended, or defective branches. This process decreases torque load at the branch’s bending point, reducing the likelihood of failure.

  • Most trees can be pruned year-round, depending on your goals. If you want to slow growth, pruning after leaf-out reduces the tree’s energy intake by removing some of the leaf mass, which is where trees take in energy. To promote growth, pruning later in the year or during dormancy allows the tree to store more energy for the next growing season. However, Oaks and Elms should not be pruned from April to mid-October, as beetles active during this time can spread diseases like Dutch Elm Disease and Oak Wilt. [click here to learn more]

  • Yes, an ISA Certified Arborist® follows ANSI A300 Standards for pruning and understands the specific needs of different tree species. Each species responds differently to pruning due to genetic variance, making it critical to know what, how, and when to prune. We are passionate about stewarding our urban forest and helping to manage trees that inspire thought and curiosity about the living things around us.