Green Hills' Expert Arborists

Green Hills’ Tree Challenges

Teardown and rebuild root damage is the defining Green Hills problem. A 1950s ranch comes down in a week, and the excavation, regrading, and parked equipment compact the root zone of the mature oak that was supposed to anchor the new landscape. The tree does not die that year; it thins and declines over the following three to five, when the builder is long gone. Root zone protection before demolition, and remediation after, costs a fraction of removing a dead sixty foot oak between two new houses.

Aging hackberries line the older streets of Glendale and Lone Oak. Hackberry grows fast, hollows early, and sheds large limbs in summer thunderstorms with little warning, and many of the neighborhood originals are past eighty years old. Regular inspection tells you which trees are sound, which need weight reduction, and which single tree on the block genuinely needs to come out before a storm decides for you.

Mature oaks and magnolias over rooflines define Woodmont and the streets off Hobbs Road. White oaks hold enormous limbs over roofs and driveways, and southern magnolias carry dense evergreen crowns that load up badly in ice. Both reward careful reduction pruning and punish shortcuts; topping ruins the tree and multiplies future risk instead of removing it.