Tree Healthcare in Nashville, TN & Davidson County

Nashville is a city of old trees and new construction sitting right on top of each other. Drive from Belle Meade through Sylvan Park and out to The Nations and you pass hundred-year-old oaks shading Tudor and Colonial Revival homes, brick bungalows and cottages from the 1920s and 40s, mid-century ranches in Green Hills and Berry Hill, and tall-skinny new builds squeezed onto lots that used to hold one house and three shade trees. Those tall-skinnies are where we get a lot of calls, because grading, trenching and foundation work cut root systems that the neighboring trees had spent decades growing.

The soil here does not do anyone any favors. Much of Davidson County is heavy clay over limestone, thin in spots on the ridges around Percy Warner and Radnor Lake, and badly compacted in older neighborhoods where driveways, patios and additions have been built over root zones. Clay holds water in a wet spring and turns to brick in an August dry spell, and trees end up swinging between drowned roots and drought stress in the same year. That is why a thinning canopy in Hillsboro Village usually has an underground cause, not a leaf disease.

Weather is the other constant. Middle Tennessee sits in a spring severe-storm corridor, and the lines that come through in March, April and May bring straight-line wind that finds every weak branch union and decayed trunk in the city. Summer brings heat, humidity and the fungal and insect pressure that comes with it — aphids dripping honeydew on cars in Green Hills, scale on hollies and maples, borers working on already-stressed trees. Winter is usually mild but throws the occasional ice storm or hard freeze that loads limbs past what they can carry. Ash trees across the city are under emerald ash borer pressure and will not survive without treatment.

We cover every part of the city: Belle Meade, Green Hills, West Nashville, Sylvan Park, The Nations, Bellevue, Forest Hills, Oak Hill, Hillsboro Village, Berry Hill, East Nashville, Donelson and everything in between, from the Cumberland River bends out to the Warner Parks.