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Tree Service in Gainesville, FL
Our base is in north Gainesville, about seven minutes from downtown. Tree removal, trimming, stump grinding, and storm damage calls across the city are what we do.
From the Duckpond to Hogtown Creek
The Northeast Gainesville Residential District, known locally as the Duckpond, joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Its 229 historic buildings are Victorian, Mediterranean, and Colonial in style, and mature oaks shade the lots around them.
Hogtown Creek runs through northwest Gainesville and drains a 21 square mile basin, about 65 percent of it low-density residential. A closed canopy of water oak, live oak, red maple, loblolly pine, and southern magnolia shades the stream.
Devil’s Millhopper, off NW 53rd Avenue, is a sinkhole 120 feet deep and 500 feet wide. The park around it grades from sandhill, where pines dominate the sandy soil, to moist hammocks of broadleaf trees.
Which trees cause trouble in Gainesville?
Laurel oak and water oak are the two to watch. UF/IFAS usually gives laurel oak a 50 to 70 year life span, with decay, root rot, and hollowing as it ages. Water oak is short-lived and decay-prone like it, and sits in the least wind-resistant group.
Live oaks are only 4 percent of the trees in Alachua County but supply nearly a third of its canopy, according to a UF/IFAS study. A 2016 UF survey found Gainesville had lost 11 percent of its canopy since 1996.
Field notes from Gainesville
- Gainesville has held Tree City USA status every year since 1982.
- A 2016 assessment put canopy at 47 percent of the city’s land area.
- Haile Plantation has a Gainesville mailing address but sits in unincorporated Alachua County.
From our base to downtown
Downtown Gainesville is 7 minutes and 2.8 miles from our north Gainesville base, down NW 6th Street and North Main Street. Call (727) 486-1206 Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 4 PM, and we will work out when to get to you.
Tree services in Gainesville
Everything we do, available on any Gainesville lot.
- Tree RemovalSafe takedown of dead, leaning, storm-damaged, or unwanted trees, planned around what is beneath and beside them.
- Tree TrimmingCareful pruning of oaks, palms, and landscape trees: deadwood out, roofs and driveways cleared, cuts made at the branch collar.
- Stump GrindingStumps ground below grade, with the chips raked and the spot left ready for sod, mulch, or a new tree.
- Emergency Tree ServiceStorm calls for trees on houses, cars, fences, and driveways, with safety and insurance steps up front.
- Broken & Hanging Branch RemovalSafe removal of cracked, split, and hanging limbs over roofs, driveways, and play areas, with the cutting order planned first.
Gainesville tree questions
Do I need a permit to remove a tree in Gainesville?
Inside city limits, an existing single-family lot is regulated only for Heritage Trees. Most species qualify at 20 inches of trunk diameter; water oaks, laurel oaks, sweetgums, and slash and loblolly pines at 30. High Quality species are regulated anywhere on the lot. City permits are free and must come before any work; the city’s Urban Forestry office handles them.
Can a hazard tree be removed without a permit?
Florida Statute 163.045 bars a city from requiring a permit to remove a residential tree that a certified arborist or Florida-licensed landscape architect has documented as an unacceptable risk. Invasive species are exempt from the city rules as well.
Can you come out when a tree falls on a house or fence?
Yes. Emergency Tree Service covers storm calls and trees on houses, cars, fences, and drives. Call (727) 486-1206 and tell us what the tree landed on.
Tree trouble in Gainesville?
Call (727) 486-1206 and describe it, or send the quote form with your address.