Taylors Trees

Taylors Trees has been cutting and grinding around Melbourne for more than 25 years and now employs over 70 people, which puts it among the bigger tree firms in the state. Trading as Taylors Tree and Stump Removal, it works for homes and businesses right across the city, and it also partners with Vegetation Group Australia on local government and power utility arboriculture, the sort of contract work that keeps a crew busy between domestic jobs.

The main services are tree removal, tree pruning and tree stump removal. All pruning and removal work is done to the Australian standards, and the company backs it with a customer service guarantee, free quotes and vehicle tracking, so the office can tell you where the crew actually is rather than guessing.

Two of the specialties are worth singling out for Melbourne gardens. Elm leaf beetle control matters in the eastern and inner suburbs where the old elms line the streets and the beetle can strip a canopy in a season. Possum banding is the other, fitting collars to trunks so possums cannot climb up and eat out a tree or get into a roof.

On the advisory side there are arborist reports, hazard and risk assessment, and help getting a tree removal permit, which is the sticking point with most Melbourne councils before a protected tree can come out. For clients with a lot of trees, tree maintenance programs and cyclic pruning put the work on a schedule instead of dealing with it when something fails. Tree planting is offered as well.

The service area is long. In the east it runs through Box Hill, Camberwell, Ringwood and Boronia and up into Olinda and Belgrave. It takes in the inner suburbs from Richmond and Fitzroy to St Kilda and Port Melbourne, the north through Brunswick, Preston and Eltham, the south east across Glen Waverley, Dandenong and Berwick, and reaches down the Mornington Peninsula as far as Sorrento and Portsea. The office is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.