A tree can look bad for two completely different reasons.
The branches may be overgrown, poorly positioned, hanging over a walkway, or carrying dead wood that needs pruning. Another tree may have a perfectly acceptable shape but show leaf discoloration, thinning growth, insect activity, or another sign that the concern belongs in plant health rather than trimming.
Weston Landscape & Design separates those jobs on our website.
Our Tree Trimming & Removals division handles physical work such as pruning, trimming, removal, shrub work, and stump grinding. Our Tree & Plant Healthcare division handles fertilization, insect control, and disease control for trees and shrubs.
A Denver homeowner can need one service, both services, or neither after the property is evaluated.
Pruning changes the physical structure
Our trimming service is built around the branches and form of the plant.
We provide tree trimming and pruning as well as shrub trimming, shrub pruning, removal, and stump grinding.
That work may be prompted by overgrowth, clearance, structure, appearance, or ordinary maintenance.
A branch hanging across a walkway is a physical issue.
A shrub growing over a window may need trimming.
A tree that has outgrown the place where it was planted may need a larger discussion about pruning or removal.
None of those conditions automatically means the plant is unhealthy.
That distinction keeps homeowners from assuming every pruning job needs a treatment program attached to it.
Plant health looks at what is happening inside the plant
Our Plant Healthcare division is organized differently.
The current service menu includes tree and shrub fertilization, insect control, and disease control.
Those services begin with plant condition rather than branch clearance.
A tree with thinning foliage may need to be evaluated for insects, disease, nutrition, watering, or another environmental condition.
Pruning may eventually become part of the recommendation, but cutting branches should not be used as a substitute for figuring out why the plant changed.
The reverse is also true.
A healthy tree that needs clearance pruning does not automatically need fertilizer or disease treatment simply because a plant-health division exists.
The same tree can move between both service categories
A mature tree can have more than one thing happening at once.
Perhaps several branches need pruning and the foliage is also showing unusual symptoms.
We have both service categories under the same landscape company, which means the property can be looked at from both perspectives rather than forcing the homeowner to decide which department owns the tree before the first visit.
That is especially useful on larger Denver-area properties with mature trees and shrubs.
The tree crew can address physical structure.
The plant-health team can address fertilization, insect, or disease concerns.
The work should still be scoped separately so the customer understands what each part is meant to accomplish.
Irrigation can sit underneath both problems
We also install, start, repair, troubleshoot, and winterize irrigation systems.
That matters because a struggling tree or shrub may also be growing in a landscape with changing water conditions.
A new bed may have altered irrigation.
A sprinkler repair may have changed coverage.
A mature plant may now be much larger than it was when the system was first designed.
This does not mean irrigation is responsible for every plant problem.
It means we should look at the broader property before assuming the answer is fertilizer, insect treatment, or pruning.
A full-service landscape company has the advantage of being able to connect those observations when they are relevant.
Maintenance history helps the next visit
Tell us what has already happened to the tree.
Was it heavily pruned recently?
Did another company treat it?
Was construction completed nearby?
Has irrigation changed?
Did the symptoms begin after an unusually dry period?
A technician seeing the tree today cannot automatically know that history.
Our broader service lineup includes landscape maintenance, lawn care, irrigation, tree work, plant healthcare, and landscape design across the same Denver metro territory. Learn more about us on Who We Are.
Keeping those records connected gives the next person more context.
That is particularly useful when the tree sits inside a landscape we already maintain.
Removal should be a separate decision too
We list tree removal inside our Tree Trimming & Removals division.
That does not mean a tree with a plant-health problem automatically moves toward removal.
A homeowner should expect us to explain what service is being recommended and why.
Some trees need ordinary pruning.
Some may need plant-health treatment.
Some situations may justify removal.
These are different decisions and should remain different in the proposal.
Describe what changed instead of ordering the service yourself
A homeowner does not need to know whether the first appointment belongs to the pruning team or plant-health team.
Describe what you see.
"The branches are blocking the driveway" gives us one kind of starting point.
"The leaves on this tree look different from every other tree" gives another.
"This tree needs pruning and has been thinning for two years" tells us both categories may deserve attention.
Browse more tips on the Weston blog, or start from the full services menu. We have served the Denver metro area since 2003 and currently work in Denver, Cherry Hills Village, Greenwood Village, Littleton, Centennial, Lakewood, Englewood, Highlands Ranch, Castle Pines, and many surrounding communities.
You can reach us through the contact page or at (303) 944-7495.
