Streamline Tree Care

Our team of ISA Certified Arborists have been helping clients beautify their landscapes for over 20 years. We can help you beautify yours. Although we have the expertise and equipment for safe tree removal, we prefer to preserve valuable trees whenever practical. We provide a complete range of tree services, including tree planting, tree pruning, treatment of sick trees and lightning protection installation. To ensure that your trees will be healthy and beautiful, our advice and work practices are built on the latest tree research and results.

When you hire Streamline Tree Care, it is our responsibility to provide you with tree care services that are both cost-effective and that adhere to industry standards. We accomplish this by running an efficient business with well-maintained equipment and employees who undergo continuous training. OSHA ranks the tree industry as one of the most hazardous. As a smart consumer, you should not risk hiring a tree service that operates without insurance. Require a contractor's insurance company to provide a certificate of insurance.

If you have trees that are ugly, unsafe, or simply unwanted, Streamline Tree Care can take away your pain. Tree removal can be extremely hazardous and often requires specialized equipment and techniques. We have the equipment and expertise to remove your trees safely and quickly. We guarantee no damage to your landscape plants and we will work to minimize damage to your turf grass. Logs from tree removals won't be left for days on your turf grass for a third party contractor to pick up, we have the equipment to pick them up immediately and prior to requesting payment.

After a tree is removed, the remaining stump is usually cut to within 6 - 12 inches of the local grade. By using landscape friendly stump cutters we can remove the top portion of the stump to a depth of approximately 4 - 6 inches, which is enough soil depth to grow healthy turf grass. The entire stump can be removed if necessary. Entire stump removal may be the right choice if a replacement tree will be planted in the same location or if new construction will be performed. Grinding a large stump will generate a significant quantity of wood mulch mixed with soil.

Streamline Tree Care offers a full range of tree services for improving the health and beauty of your landscape trees. Individual trees are valuable assets to your property. Collectively they are essential for local biodiversity and the health of the Chesapeake Bay.

Virginia averages 35 to 45 thunderstorm days per year. Parts of Hampton Roads have the highest lightning strike rate in the state and many of these lightning strikes damage and kill urban trees. Lightning strikes on trees that are located close to your home or other structure can also pose a fire hazard. A severe strike can side-flash to your home's outdoor lighting or metal guttering and spark a fire. Streamline Tree Care can install a copper lightning protection system in your tree that will reduce the risk of damage to your tree or nearby structures.

Every pruning cut causes an injury to your tree, therefore each cut should be made with an understanding of how the tree will respond to that injury. We generally perform mature tree pruning to improve light penetration to turf grass or to eliminate interference with a home or other structure. Our ISA Certified Arborists are formally trained to accomplish these pruning goals while minimizing injury to your tree. Improper cutting technique which damages the branch collar can lead to irreversible decline and decay in your trees.

Tree preservation programs can yield big rewards for a property owner. Healthy trees require healthy soils. Any changes in soil grade or degradation in soil structure can cause irreversible damage to tree health. Thriving mature trees enhance property values, improve air quality, moderate climate, provide wildlife habitat and add beauty to our landscape. Sickly, stressed trees reduce property values and are difficult to maintain, more subject to storm damage and expensive to remove. Young replacement trees take decades to reach maturity.

You want advice from a knowledgeable and experienced individual. An ISA Certified Arborist has at least three years of practical experience and has passed a comprehensive written exam covering all aspects of tree care. Subjects include tree biology, tree/soil relations, water management, disease diagnosis, proper pruning techniques and many other topics critical for a practicing arborist. ISA Certified Arborists must continue their education to maintain their certification. Certification is administered by the International Society of Arboriculture and provides a measureable assessment of one's knowledge to practice proper tree care.

Will your green waste take up space at the landfill? Will it be dumped on the side of the road at midnight? Being responsible and environmentally friendly requires us to make use of our trees as sawlogs, pulpwood or firewood, easing the burden on our forests. Chips can be used as a good mulch or boiler fuel. However the best course of action is to preserve trees when practical and often there are alternatives to removal. Having an ISA Certified Arborist on the job site will ensure that your trees are cared for by an individual who is knowledgeable and experienced in proper tree care.

After conducting a soil analysis we can determine nutrient deficiencies and develop a plan for optimum tree fertilization. Your landscape is actually a foreign environment for your trees. Urban trees generally lack access to the rich layer of organic topsoil found in the forest. To ensure your trees remain healthy and vigorous you need to fertilize your trees when, but only when, nutrient deficiencies exist and before irreversible problems arise. Unnecessary tree fertilization can increase plant damage from feeding insects and can pollute the Chesapeake Bay and our local rivers when excessive nitrogen leaches through the soil.