Tree Service in Roxbury

Roxbury sits on the puddingstone that gives the neighbourhood its ledge and its steep grades. Shallow soil over rock means street trees with restricted root runs and root plates that never develop properly.

The building density is the defining constraint. Triple-deckers close on both sides, wires overhead, and often no vehicle access to a back yard at all, which means the tree comes out in small pieces or it does not come out.

London plane and honey locust are common as planted street trees because they tolerate compacted urban soil. They still shed limbs, and in a corridor this tight a shed limb has somewhere to land almost immediately.