Tree pruning in the center of Antwerp

A tree pruning in the center of Antwerp has its challenges, but we are happy to meet them.

Because there are many beautiful old trees in Antwerp. And because we are passionate, we also want to care for them correctly.

And we can and do that as experienced tree care providers.

When pruning a tree comes with a lot of knowledge and experience. Not only knowledge of species and knowledge of crown architecture is important. You also need to know what dimensions of branches you can prune and how you should prune them to get the tree to the right final appearance.

On this page you can read which large, beautiful trees we have already pruned in the center of Antwerp, and why.

You will see that our approach is always in line with us ethical policy trees.

 

 

 

 

Pruning this beautiful tree in the center of Antwerp was necessary because of too many overhanging branches on the side of the left neighbor.

To protect the tree from excessive pruning, the left side was trimmed crown of the tree taken. It also became highlighting the crown carried out during pruning.

So that the overhanging branches on the neighbor's side cause less nuisance. And with if The advantage is that more light can reach the crown of the tree.

This will create a new inner crown and the tree will invest less in the outside in the future. This causes less inconvenience to the neighbors.

 

Atmospheric image of a tower on a historic building in the center of Antwerp, taken from the crown of the tree during pruning.

 

 

Pruning trees and overhanging branches in the center of Antwerp

 

You cannot completely take in the overhanging branches to the desired length in one go. Because then there will no longer be a single leaf on the left side of the crown. And then the tree might die.

The growth form is also completely lost. What you don't want.

This first pruning, in which we highlighted the entire crown, provides more light.

And when the new inner crown has been formed within a few years, we can prune the tree again on the outside in the center of Antwerp.

 

Crown with overhanging branches on the left side before pruning the tree.

 

 

Final image of the tree after pruning.

 

Final image after pruning the tree and it chopping the branches in the center of Antwerp..

 

 

Note that the tree on the left will have grown back within 1 year, but with twigs much closer to the trunk and on the inside of the crown.

This ensures that you regain the natural crown appearance within one year.

 

 

After pruning, chop the branches

 

After pruning, we chop all branches with our demountable Joe Beau chopper. Because the tree to be pruned in the center of Antwerp is in a small city garden, where you have to go through the house with the machine.

But because our chopper is small, powerful and demountable, this is not a problem.

 

Without any problems we got our chopper neatly into the garden, along the small steps.

 

 

Garden neatly tidied and leaf blown after pruning work. And the chopped wood is fed from the tree as soil improvement under the bushes and into the tree mirror.