Southern Tree Service

Southern Tree Service is a family run arborist business working the southern end of the Mornington Peninsula. It is a smaller outfit that leans on hands-on arborist knowledge rather than a long service menu, and the work runs from careful pruning through to taking down big trees on the tight coastal blocks around Sorrento and Portsea.

Large removals are a good part of the job. When a mature tree has died, been storm-damaged or simply grown too big for where it stands, the team drops it safely, working around houses, fences and gardens on blocks where there is not much room to move. Tree removal at any size is handled the same careful way.

Fine pruning is the other half of what they do, shaping and thinning trees to keep them healthy and looking right rather than just hacking them back. Owners weighing up whether a tree should stay or go can get professional arborist advice on its condition before committing to anything.

What comes off a job does not go to waste. Branches are run through the chipper for mulching and can be left on site for the garden, while larger wood is cut into firewood. Stump removal clears what is left in the ground, and the business also takes on domestic and commercial garden services beyond the trees themselves.

Southern Tree Service covers the southern Mornington Peninsula, including Sorrento, Portsea, Blairgowrie, Rye, Tootgarook, Capel Sound, Rosebud, McCrae, Dromana, Arthurs Seat, Red Hill, Main Ridge, Boneo, Fingal, Cape Schanck, St Andrews Beach and Flinders.