Tree Service in Suwanee, GA

Much of the Tree Service work we do in Suwanee is on lots that back up to green space. The city has built a network of trails along its creeks: the 4-mile Suwanee Creek Greenway, the Brushy Creek Greenway, the 85-acre Suwanee Creek Park and George Pierce Park, which at 304 acres is the city's largest. The Chattahoochee forms the western edge of town at the Fulton line. Homes along those corridors get shade, privacy and also the tall bottomland trees that drop limbs over fences and decks.

A city that employs an arborist

Suwanee has an Arborist and Environmental Services Manager who writes about the city's planting, preservation and education programs. The city works with builders to protect large specimen trees with root protection buffers during construction and requires new developments to set aside common areas for trees. For a homeowner, that means two things. Your subdivision may have tree-save or common areas you do not own, and the city has someone to call if you are unsure whether a rule applies to your lot.

Bottomland trees and creek soils

Along Suwanee Creek and Brushy Creek, the soil stays damp much longer after rain. Tulip poplars, sweetgums, river birches and water oaks do well there, but wet ground loosens root plates, and fast-growing poplars can shed big limbs in summer storms. Trees next to a greenway also tend to lean toward the open light over the trail. We look for those leans and for root damage from old grading when we walk a creekside lot.

Old town, newer subdivisions

Suwanee grew around the Georgia Air Line Railroad, built in 1871, and a fire in 1881 spared only one building on Main Street. Most homes today are newer subdivisions built around that small historic core and Town Center Park. The Atlanta Falcons practiced in Suwanee from 1979 to 2001, a reminder of how fast the area changed. Newer lots often have trees planted by the builder that are now crowding gutters and siding.

Leyland cypress and other builder screens

Many Suwanee lots have rows of Leyland cypress planted as quick privacy screens. They grow fast but do poorly in Georgia heat and drought, and canker diseases often kill them in sections, leaving brown gaps. Once a Leyland is mostly brown, it will not green back up. Taking out the dead ones, grinding the stumps and replanting with something better suited, such as a mix of native hollies or other evergreens, usually works better than trying to save a declining row.

Common Suwanee jobs

• Thinning and raising limbs over fences and decks that back onto greenways
• Removing poplars or pines that have started to lean
• Pruning builder-planted maples, oaks and Leyland cypress away from the house
• Stump grinding after removals
• Cleanup after summer thunderstorms

Call (770) 758-8959 or send the form. We will tell you what we see and give you a written estimate.