Franklin Farm's Expert Arborists

Franklin Farm’s Tree Challenges

Walk any block in Franklin Farm and you will find leyland cypress doing the privacy screening work between yards, and it is also the tree most likely to bring trouble. Cypress canker moves down a planted row once it takes hold in one tree, and a homeowner often does not notice until half the screen has gone brown. Flowering dogwood, native to this region, fills out the older plantings and is prone to dogwood anthracnose, a fungal disease that thins the canopy from the bottom before it becomes obvious from the street. Mature willow oak and red maple round out the shade canopy, and both carry a slow, quiet risk of interior decay as they age past their first few decades.

Summer thunderstorms and the occasional remnant hurricane are the main storm exposure in Franklin Farm, and because lots sit close together, damage from one failed limb or leaning trunk often lands on more than one property. An expert arborist looks past the visible break to what caused it before any saw starts.