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Tree Permits in Orlando: What You Need to Know Before Cutting Anything Down

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Tree Permits in Orlando: What You Need to Know Before Cutting Anything Down

A lot of homeowners find out about Orlando’s tree ordinances and tree permits the hard way. You own the property, the tree is in your yard, and it doesn’t occur to you that you’d need government permission to cut it down. But in many ... more »

Lightning-Struck Tree: Can It Be Saved or Must It Come Down?

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Lightning-Struck Tree: Can It Be Saved or Must It Come Down?

Central Florida gets struck by lightning more than almost anywhere else in the country. The corridor between Tampa and Daytona ranks among the most lightning-prone regions in the United States, and Orlando sits right in the middle of it. Summer afternoons ... more »

Mulch Volcanoes and Other Tree Care Mistakes around Orlando

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Mulch Volcanoes and Other Tree Care Mistakes around Orlando

Most tree care mistakes come from good intentions. You mulch the tree, water it, prune it, stake it. You’re trying to help. And sometimes, without realizing it, you’re doing real damage. Worth saying upfront: some of this stuff is genuinely ... more »

Emergency Tree Removal When a Tree Falls on Your Orlando Home

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Emergency Tree Removal When a Tree Falls on Your Orlando Home

Two in the morning. The wind howls for hours. Then, a noise you won’t forget: part crack, part freight train hitting your house. You sit up in bed. Your spouse reaches for the lamp that no longer turns on, since the power went out twenty minutes ... more »

Why the Laurel Oak is Orlando’s Most Hazardous Tree

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Why the Laurel Oak is Orlando’s Most Hazardous Tree

You’ll find them in every Orlando neighborhood built between 1975 and 1995. The streets are lined with towering laurel oaks, the driveways shaded, and the canopy arching over rooftops. They look majestic. They look permanent. They appear to be the ... more »

Hurricane Season Begins June 1: How to Prepare Trees in Central Florida

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Hurricane Season Begins June 1: How to Prepare Trees in Central Florida

Check out your current trees in your yard. Really look. Like that laurel oak above the master bedroom. That water oak you have always kind of ignored that has the co-dominant forks. The Bradford pear that has already split twice. Now the calendar is not ... more »

Tree Roots vs. Your Foundation: Eight Steps Orlando Homeowners Can Take to Protect Them Both

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Tree Roots vs. Your Foundation: Eight Steps Orlando Homeowners Can Take to Protect Them Both

There’s a sound that no Orlando homeowner ever wants to hear. It isn’t the clap of thunder in hurricane season or a neighbor’s saw buzzing away at seven A.M. It’s quieter than that. More insidious. It’s the quiet, barely audible pop ... more »

7 Silent Warning Signs Your Orlando Tree Is Dying

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7 Silent Warning Signs Your Orlando Tree Is Dying

Central Florida Spring has a way of making everything look healthy. The rains return, the canopies fill in, and that tree out back—now a little worse for winter wear—is suddenly sporting a full head of leaves again. All good, right? Maybe. Maybe ... more »

Tips For Tree Trimming

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Tips For Tree Trimming

There’s something entirely fulfilling about walking into your Orlando backyard on a clear morning, coffee in hand, looking up at a well-managed tree. Not the scraggly, over-pruned kind that looks like it got into a tussle with a hedge trimmer, but a tree of ... more »

Florida Homeowners Spring Tree Health Checklist

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Florida Homeowners Spring Tree Health Checklist

You walk outside one morning in early March, coffee in hand, breathing in that first real taste of warm air after weeks of cool, grey Florida winter, and something catches your eye. A branch that was never drooping like that before. Some bark that looks ... more »

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