Austin Tree Specialists and owner, Patrick Wentworth, have been serving the needs of the Central Texas urban forest since 1975, offering a complete tree service for all of your trees' needs from scientifically based pruning, crown reduction pruning, cabling, bracing, fertilization, insect and disease diagnosis and treatment. We cover it all - from the roots to the crown.
The one thing we see most often in the Austin and surrounding area is the over pruning of trees - the removal of perfectly good green foliage for no reason at all. The only part of a tree that produces food is the leaf and the leaf surface. Unnecessarily removing green tissue from trees makes for a weaker tree. Few trees have too many leaves. In fact, the opposite is usually true. Over pruning stresses a tree and leaves the interior of the tree open to a condition called sunscald. All too often, it also makes for a tree more likely to break in a storm.