Find a Trusted Arborist
in Canberra

Canberra splits in two once you start looking at trees. The older inner suburbs are exotic deciduous country: the pin oaks of Stuart Street in Griffith and Fawkner Street in Braddon, the claret ashes now suffering dieback, and the blue Atlas cedars of Yarralumla, planted on generous setbacks and now well past the size where a ladder and a hand saw will do. Head out to Belconnen and Tuggeranong and it turns native. Tuggeranong in particular is full of eucalypts, a deliberate planning decision to keep the character of the area and because natives were more cost effective to maintain in the climate. The two halves fail in different ways. A deciduous street tree tears when a summer hailstorm loads a canopy in full leaf, the way the storm of 20 January 2020 did when hail four to six centimetres across fell from Belconnen through Acton to the inner south and Canberra Airport clocked a 117km/h gust, its strongest since 1996. Trees across the inner south were partially defoliated, and the Atlas cedars came off worst, with many since dead. A mature eucalypt just drops a limb on a hot, still afternoon for no reason its owner can see coming.

Then there is the west. The January 2003 firestorm killed four people, destroyed 501 houses and damaged hundreds more, and burnt around 70 per cent of the Territory, including all the government pine forest west of the Murrumbidgee, taking in the Stromlo, Uriarra and Pierces Creek plantations. Duffy was hit hardest by a wide margin, and the deaths occurred there, with Chapman, Kambah, Holder, Rivett, Torrens and Weston also struck. What was replanted across those suburbs afterwards is now twenty-odd years old and reaching exactly the size where pruning becomes a job for someone with a rope and insurance. Use this directory to find a local arborist or tree service anywhere from the inner suburbs out to Queanbeyan, whether you live in the place, rent it out or manage it for someone else. No fees, no middlemen.