Hedge Trimming
- Based in Eastern Melbourne
- Certified Arborists
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Hedge Trimming Services
Hedge trimming is one of the most important maintenance practices in professional tree care. At Victory Tree Care, we offer hedge trimming for Eastern Melbourne properties, helping you achieve your dream landscape.
There are essentially two objectives in hedge trimming. Hazard reduction trimming addresses specific dangers caused by visibly defined safety issues in your hedges. Maintenance trimming preserves or improves the health and structure of your hedges. Special care is taken to encourage structural integrity, appearance, safety, and overall health of your hedges.
Hedge Trimming to prevent dangerous incidents
Enhancing the structure of hedges is accomplished through developmental hedge trimming. This is one of the most important procedures for your new plantings to ensure desirable branch architecture and structural integrity. Proper trimming of young hedges now will reduce the potential for costly problems and the need for structural support as your landscape matures.
Hedge trimming for appearance and restoration is essential for maximizing the beauty of formal plantings and landscapes. We offer hedge trimming for Melbourne owners looking for aesthetic hedge care. Not only can we help reform unique characteristics, but our trimming also helps maintain healthier plants.
Safety audits and storm damage prevention are crucial to eliminating the danger and damage caused by falling limbs. This is particularly a concern for hedges along driveways, pedestrian paths, and surrounding buildings. As one of the leading hedge trimming companies in Melbourne, we recommend trimming low-hanging branches and pruning any dangerous limbs before they become a safety concern.
Benefits of Hedge Trimming
Hedge trimming by professionals provides a variety of benefits to your hedges. Trimming for health includes the removal of broken, diseased, or dead branches to prevent decay-producing fungi from penetrating and infecting other areas of your hedges. Regular trimming is also occasionally necessary to allow increased exposure to sunlight and better circulation of air within the foliage.
Crown Lifting
for example, or sometimes to allow more light to pass beneath the crown. Crown lifting often has limited impact on the amenity of a tree because it does not change the more visible higher parts of the crown. On the other hand, lower branches tend to be bigger so the wounds are larger, which can have an adverse effect on the tree’s health. Lower branches have an important role to play in dampening the sway of a tree in Melbourne’s high winds.
Crown Thinning
changed. Crown thinning increases light penetration and air circulation throughout the crown.
As one of the leading tree pruning companies in Melbourne, we understand the importance of good crown thinning techniques. It is important to work throughout the crown, including its outer edges, focusing on removing small diameter branches. Removing too many branches from the centre of the crown can result in a tree with poor structure with a few points that can be pruned back to in the future. It can also result in long, thin branches that have little foliage in their lower parts to dampen swaying, putting extra stress on the tree in high winds.
Crown Reduction
Crown reduction is usually used where a tree has outgrown the space it stands in. Crown reduction often results in large wounds at the branch ends, which may start to decay. It should be seen as a last resort.
When carrying out a crown reduction, branches should be cut back to a suitable site and a flowing branch line maintained, reflecting the natural shape of the tree. Poorly executed crown reduction is known as topping and is very bad practice. Trimming trees in this manner can lead to a stunted and deformed tree, and may increasing the risk of infection or decay.
Crown reduction should not be carried out on tree’s with a pyramidal shape, such as many conifers and birches.
Weight Reduction
the canopy. This is done for the same reasons as Crown reduction above, but is limited to just the more lateral branches and does not include reduction of the height of leading stems in the upper canopy. This is our primary tree trimming method to improve safety and reduce the risk of falling branches in tree’s.
Selective Pruning
needs than it is for an improvement in the tree’s own structure or health.
Clearance Pruning
distance from utility service wires, gutters or of tree’s over the boundaries of neighbouring properties.
Formative Pruning
This type of pruning is often done on juvenile trees to prevent many of the above pruning requirements in later years.
Remedial pruning
Usually done on mature trees to repair damages after major failures from storm events, other mechanical damage or previous poor ‘pruning ‘practices.
Dead Wooding
and life of the tree. It gives you more light and enables the tree to grow to its full potential. The formation of dead wood within the crown of a tree is part of the natural system of tree life and if not removed it decreases the health of the tree. As one of the leading professional tree pruning companies in Melbourne, we have the machinery and skills to take care of all your dead wood.