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Gardening Services
Providing Over 25 Years of Tree-Care Experience
Residential Garden Arborist Services
We offer complete garden arborist services in Brisbane, including free verbal opinions on the best options for achieving your specific requirements and also the health, safety and longevity of your gardens and trees. The company has specialised and efficient equipment for the work. You will never be left with branches on your lawn or driveway, and all material removed is composted locally. However, we are also happy to leave you with mulch and/or firewood.
Commercial Garden Arborist Services
We are very experienced in working with a variety of commercial entities: construction firms, civil engineers, local authorities, property developers, landscaping firms, and management agencies, airports, resorts, etc.
We Work With You
We understand that you must be provided with a reliable punctual and professional arborist services, to ensure minimal impact on other activities on site, and to co-ordinate with other contractors. We understand that whether it’s for a golf course, a shopping mall, a school, warehouse or factory site, a prime contractor on a construction site, or a municipality, you will have specific requirements, including Health & Safety issues, which must be complied with. With this in mind, we are able to respond to requirements and work to tight schedules. We are able to tailor any tree service jobs to the individual needs of your organization and can facilitate the completion of works quickly and conveniently, at short notice, if necessary.
We maintain great working relationships with local authorities and planning officials in Brisbane and can liaise with them as required.
If you would like to arrange a commercial contract, please contact the office either by phone or email.
Garden Tidy/Maintenance
We can carry out maintenance in gardens, keep borders and provide a high-quality service. We can de-wed, thin out, re-shape, and replenish any garden.
Formative and general Pruning of trees and shrubs correctly to minimize the overhang to neighbouring properties and footpaths. We can lay chippings to the correct depth to suppress the re-growth of weeds. (We don’t do lawn mowing, but we can suggest local businesses that may be able to help you).
Garden Detailing
If you want a clean and crisp garden, then we are here to provide just that. We can remove excess old mulchings, leaves, and lumps and bumps in your garden which all helps to set your garden apart from the rest.
End of Lease or Sale Complete Garden Tidy Up
Ease your mind and use us to get a professional end of lease rental property clean-up service on your property.
Responsibilities of the tree owner concerning neighbours are:
- Cutting and removing any branches of the tree which overhangs a neighbours land, SOME VPO’s excluded.
- Ensuring that a tree does not cause serious injury to a person on the neighbours land,
- Serious damage to a neighbour’s property, or
- Unreasonable interference with a person’s use and enjoyment of their land.
The laws recognize this and focus upon the concept of ‘reasonably foreseeable’ incidents. In commissioning a report you can fulfil part of your duty of care under the Occupier’s Liability Acts.
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Garden Makeovers
If you already have the foundations for your great garden, or your once perfect garden has past it’s use by date, then let us do a makeover for you. We have the expertise and knowledge to bring it back to life. It can include formative pruning, introduction of new plants, mulching, and even new edging.
Hedge & Shrub Re-Shaping
Formal shaping of hedges has been a tradition for many years and with continued trimming we can achieve some very interesting shapes.
To the most part, we shape hedges to a “square” or “ball” profile but we can obviously tailor to your needs given time and repeat trimming and shaping.
Hedge Reductions
Hedge reduction is a process that is a more drastic process than simply hedge trimming. In some cases, a hedge may have over grown due to neglect or long periods without trimming. The hedge therefore needs to be reduced in height or width (or both) but doing so can be detrimental to the hedge. Careful assessment of the hedge is needed to determine how to reduce it without causing too much stress which can lead to decay and/or pest problems.
Weed Control
Weeds are great survivors. It takes more than a few years of drought and water restrictions to knock them on the head. Just hitting them with a harsh chemical from the local ‘you-know-who’ fixes them temporally and when they come back, it is with a resistance and more strength.
Weeds come in all shapes and sizes, from things like morning glory to small plants like ochna to large trees such as Elms.
To stay on top of these weeds, we recognise them, let you know and either we advise you how to remove them or we do it for you. It is important that even if we can’t physically remove a weed, we can stop it seeding by removing its flowers.
Remember weed control is best for your garden, and best for your neighbour’s garden too!
To effectively control perennial weeds, we may need to use herbicides to kill its root from underground as well as what has grown into your garden.
Soil/Mulch Replenishments
As the weather is warming up, it is time to replenish your garden.
There are a range of different types of soil to replenish your gardens, each garden is different, please ask us what would suit your garden best.
Mulching
A lightweight cost-effective mulch often used is sugarcane mulch. This has the advantage of mostly being weed free; however, it does not have a lot of magical qualities, but is often promoted in QLD because it is in abundance here. It is a waste product, so levels of quality can differ also the introduction of sugar cane pests can be carried into our gardens from the bales.
I prefer Lucerne straw, but it is more expensive.
Forest Mulches will also do the trick, a mix of tree fines and palms fines works a treat. If you don’t like palm fines, then substitute that with sugarcane or Lucerne.
Tree & Shrub Planting
Trees often fail at the time they are becoming prominent figures in the landscape as a usual result of improper planting techniques in the first place. We specialize in proper planting of trees and shrubs in environments where they will flourish.
Tree Planting By the Professionals
In addition to cutting trees, Arborforce can fulfill your tree planting needs. We can happily provide arboricultural advice on the best trees and shrubs for a particular space. Choosing the right tree for the right place is important, not least because it is likely to become a feature to be enjoyed for many years to come. The final size of the tree, when and how it flowers, what requirements the tree has to flourish, are just some of the factors that need to be taken into consideration. A poor choice can lead to the premature death of the tree, or equally may require constant remedial work to keep its size in check.
Remember, We have planted trees for a great number of years, Tony proudly carries a Diploma of Arboriculture and he spends more time with trees than he does with his family. This means he has a great deal of knowledge to offer you in the building of your new tree landscape.
Just as important as picking the correct tree, is a system of monitoring and maintenance especially in the tree’s early years. Poor maintenance of newly planted trees (frequently something as simple as adjusting the stake ties) can cause serious damage or even premature death. Equally problematic; failure to detect and correct early problems in the way the tree is growing can allow potentially dangerous features to develop that may need expensive and potentially harmful remedial work many years in the future.
Transplanting Trees
Occasionally, a client will ask us to move a tree from one place in their landscape to another. This can be one of the most stressful things that ever can happen to a tree, and it takes several years for a tree to regenerate a normal root system. In the meantime, the root system will have difficulty supplying enough water for the leaves. Above ground growth will slow to a fraction of what it was before moving, gradually returning to normal as the root system grows and stress is reduced.
An established tree’s root system extends far beyond the branch tips (drip line), with a network of fine roots to absorb water from a large volume of soil. Unfortunately, we cannot always remove all the roots as generally a medium sized tree root system is bigger than a backyard swimming pool. Thus, when we dig a root ball for transplanting, even following the standards we generally need to cut a significant amount of root away.
This is an inescapable fact of transplanting, but one that underscores the importance of following proper digging and moving procedures. Let us use our techniques to help ensure transplanting success.
The best time to dig the tree is when it is dormant. The tree is better able to withstand the stress of root loss if it’s not also trying to support a leafy crown.
Garden Maintenance Programs
Having a beautiful garden is what we all strive for, but time needed is often hard to find. For busy families, finding the time, let alone the skills, to keep trees and gardens trimmed, and paths clear is almost impossible. Often handyman garden maintenance providers simply offer this service, without the gardening skills or the horticultural qualifications to properly care for your garden. We have the experience and qualifications to ensure your garden remains at its best all year round. With a maintenance program implemented, we can have your garden in order all year round.
Arborforce offers a fresh new arborist based proactive approach to garden maintenance that sets it apart. With the ability in seeing problems before they get manifest themselves later if appropriate action is not taken. With advice and care, problems of nutrition and disease are taken care of promptly, ensuring that your garden retains its vigour, health and beauty.
Roof Top and Vertical Garden Maintenance
Is your Vertical Garden showing signs of stress or just not looking the way you want it to, then you need us to help. Over the years vertical gardens have become popular and proven to be a highly effective way of bringing plants and greenery into our homes and offices. The problem is the maintenance on vertical gardens is not the same as on normal gardens. This makes the sustainability of the garden hard for the owner. Don’t give up on it, call us now.
Fertilising Gardens, Trees
Spring is the ideal time to give your garden its annual feed, but lets be honest our QLD weather allows us to extend the times to fertilize. Soil and sunshine work together to make plants grow. In nature, leaf litter, animal manure and other goodies that fall on the soil continually break down to replenish soil nutrients and keep plants growing. So stop putting your doggy doo in the bin, put it in your garden. Our gardens are often competing for nutrients and with the ever increasing use of herbicide and pesticide chemicals brought from your local you-know-who store, the natural replenishments are often sparse.
Simply plants use nutrients differently. A citrus will be different to a Eucalyptus. Some need lots of one nutrient but little of another, while others need a balanced amount of each.
As a general rule of thumb, nitrogen encourages leafy growth, phosphorus stimulates overall growth and plant development, while potassium assists with flowering. So as you can see one product will not suit your whole garden, talk to us, we can help.
In order to better gauge the fertilization needs of your tree, we provide soil testing that checks soil reaction (pH), specific nutrient deficiencies, as well as soil drainage testing.
Irrigation
Keeping the gardens correct moisture balance by irrigation can be crucial to the long term health of our trees and gardens. In a climate like Brisbane, the hot temperatures can extend weeks on end and put extreme stresses on our environment. If you are going to get new irrigation or just a service then use us to get it right with the all new water saving systems.
We can:
- Installation of irrigation systems
- Irrigation repair
- Monitoring and maintenance
- Advice about watering for different plants and different times of year
Gutter Cleaning
Gutters are an integral piece of your home’s well-being. They serve to control the flow of rainwater to protect your roof, walls, foundation and landscape. To clean the gutters, it can often be an arduous and sometimes dangerous. We can help here too.