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Tree Surgeon – Tree Surgery and Hedge Trimming Services in Kent

Carrington & Son is City & Guilds and NPTC Qualified tree surgeons. We offer a bespoke tree surgery service and can also offer garden maintenance, landscape construction for the discerning client.

  • Local authority registered
  • Licensed waste carrier
  • Offers a 24 hour call out service for emergency tree work
  • Free no obligation quotations
  • Holds full public liability insurance cover up to £5 million
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Areas Covered

Trees in pots ready to be planted

Planting

Supply and planting of highest quality Tree Stock from selected nurseries. Dependent on your requirements we will select individual specimen trees and carry out the highest quality planting/installation of these trees with an after care package tailored to your needs.

Large green hedge after trimming

Hedge Cutting and Leylandii

All aspects of hedge trimming, reducing, re-shaping. Leylandii Conifer reduction and removal.

Tree surgeon removing the crown from a tree

Crown Reduction

The selective branch length pruning of the whole tree crown to reform it to a size and shape more appropriate to its position.
Tree surgeon climbing a tree, ready for removal of branches

Crown Lifting

The selective removal of lower branches of the tree crown. This raises the height of the lower branches of the tree canopy from the ground. It should be carried out in the earlier stages of a tree’s life and subsequently maintained to allow pedestrian passage below the tree to permit maintenance, and also to prevent conflict with neighbouring trees and buildings.

Tree surgeon in a tree, holding a chain saw

Crown Thinning/Dead Wooding

A process aimed at reducing the branch volume throughout the crown of the tree. Work here is mainly aimed at removing dead, damaged or poorly formed branch growth benefitting the tree by allowing a greater passage of light, air and windflow.
Top of a tree after all small branches and leaves have been removed

Pollarding

A particularly common method of tree care in France, pollard techniques are a severe approach to pruning branch length in a method forcing size and containment of the tree. Once this method of pruning has been established it will be necessary to re-pollard on a cycle of normally between 3-5 years to maintain required shape and size.

Tree surgeon cutting into the base of a tree

Tree Felling

Should it be required for a tree to be felled or removed, we are fully experienced in the felling or sectional dismantling prior to felling of trees of any size or species.

Stump grinding machine removing a tree stump from a garden

Stump Grinding Service

When a tree has been felled or site cleared, we are able to fully remove all stumps left behind leaving the ground ready for future use. We use a pedestrian operated stump grinder particularly suited to narrow openings/entrances. For larger stumps or areas we use a remote controlled tracked stump grinder capable of dealing with any size of stump.