Tree Trimming & Removal in Long Beach

Long Beach is palms more than anything else. Queen palms and Mexican fan palms line the streets and fill the yards, and a great many of them are far past the reach of any ladder — which means they get climbed or they do not get done.

The other half of the city is older neighbourhoods on narrow lots with alleys behind them, where the alley is the working side of the job and the street is just where the truck waits.

Why local knowledge matters in Long Beach

Wind is the thing that separates Long Beach from the rest of the list. It comes off the water steadily rather than in the gusts the canyons get, and it finds the same trees every time: the ones carrying too much weight out on the ends of long limbs.

Salt air is the quieter half of it. It is hard on a tree already under stress, and it is hard on anything left dead in a crown. A tree here that is thinned properly handles the wind; one that has been left to close up and load its ends is the one that loses a limb.

• Palms everywhere and most of them tall — queen and Mexican fan palms well past the reach of any ladder
• Wind off the water, which finds the trees carrying too much weight before it finds anything else
• Salt air on the coastal side, hard on a tree already under stress and on anything left dead in the crown
• Narrow lots with alley access in the older neighbourhoods, where the alley is the working side of the job

Neighbourhoods we work in: Belmont Shore, Bixby Knolls, Los Altos, California Heights, Wrigley, Naples.