Hammonton's Expert Arborists

Hammonton’s Tree Challenges

Callery pear and London plane are common urban trees across the region, and both are prone to splitting at weak branch unions as they mature. Spotted lanternfly is a concern across the region, feeding on red maple and other host trees that may already be carrying old storm damage, and where ash trees stand near homes, emerald ash borer often makes removal a near term decision rather than a long term one.

Nor’easters and remnant tropical systems bring the wettest stretches, and saturated soil after heavy rain is when large, established trees are most likely to fail at the root rather than lose limbs up top. An arborist who can tell age, pest pressure, and storm timing apart is the difference between a tree that gets pruned through the problem and one that gets removed unnecessarily.