Edge Hill
Tree removal in Edge Hill
Tree removal and pruning in Edge Hill, in the shadow of Mt Islay and the Flecker Botanic Gardens.
Tree work in Edge Hill
Old gardens, old quarry ground
Flecker Botanic Gardens in Edge Hill is on the Queensland Heritage Register, and the suburb's tallest trees grow in and around it. The register notes one corner of the gardens holds two very large hoop pines, a Cook pine, a sausage tree and a large fig.
The original Edge Hill recreation reserve took in the foothills of Mt Islay and a lowland swamp, so the ground under a yard can change from rock to soft, wet soil within a street or two.
In the 1880s the area was known chiefly for the Edgecliffe quarry, a supplier of road metal. A stump grinder working on the slopes can still meet rock close under the surface.
Services in Edge Hill
Big trees on the slopes of Mt Islay
Tree pruning
Heavy limbs lifted off roofs before the wet, on trees that have grown as tall as the gardens' own.
Tree removal
Taken down in sections on sloping blocks where nothing can be dropped.
Stump grinding
Ground out with rock near the surface allowed for in the quote.
How it works
From the first message to a written quote
The council question is settled before any price, and nothing is booked until you have said yes to a quote in writing.
- 1
Tell us what the tree is doing
Where it stands, what it hangs over and what you would like done about it.
- 2
A contractor comes to see it
A tree contractor who covers your suburb looks at the tree, the access and what is underneath it.
- 3
The council question is answered
Whether it is pruning council lets you do, or a removal that needs approval, is settled before the price.
- 4
You get it in writing
Scope, timber, stump and date on one page, and nothing is booked until you have said yes.
Edge Hill questions
Cyclones and the gardens' trees
Have cyclones damaged big trees in Edge Hill before?
Yes. In February 1986 Cyclone Winifred caused extensive damage in the Flecker Botanic Gardens at Edge Hill, where many trees, some nearly 100 years old, were severely damaged.
Does an old storm scar mean a tree is unsafe?
Not on its own. The register notes a large yellow poinciana in the gardens that shows the scars of significant storm damage over time and still stands. A scar is a reason to have the tree looked at, not to take it down.
Are the gardens' trees part of a private job?
No. The gardens and their trees are council's. Only trees on your own block are quoted privately.
