BOUGH TREE CARE, STROUD / RECENT WORK

The casebook: every job, before and after.

Choose a job, then drag the seam across the photograph. Every tree here was surveyed, quoted in writing and cleared up the same day.

Illustrative before: a mature parkland tree with ivy up its trunk, deadwood in the crown and a snapped limb hanging on the left.

Before

The same parkland tree with a clean, balanced crown and a bare trunk.

After

Parkland plane

Platanus x hispanica, about 150 years

Work Crown clean, deadwood and ivy removed

Village Painswick

On site 1 day

The snapped limb taken down on a line, the deadwood cleared and the ivy cut at the base so the trunk can be inspected.

Illustrative before: a ragged tree line with a leaning tree, brambles and self-seeded saplings along the lawn edge.

Before

An open lawn edge beneath a line of rounded broadleaf trees.

After

Garden tree line

Mixed broadleaves, bramble and self-set saplings

Work Scrub clearance and crown lift

Village Minchinhampton

On site 2 days

The leaning tree felled, the saplings grubbed out and the crowns lifted to give back the lawn edge.

Illustrative before: a storm-torn limb from a cedar lying across the lawn beside an overgrown shrub.

Before

Parkland cedars and a rounded shrub beside a clear mown lawn.

After

Atlas cedar

Cedrus atlantica, after a January gale

Work Storm-torn limb removed, wound tidied

Village Amberley

On site Half a day

Called out the morning after the storm; the limb cut up and cleared, and the tear cut back to sound wood.