Coral Springs Tree Service

A planned city with a planted canopy

Coral Springs was laid out from the 1970s on, and every subdivision came with a landscape plan: black olives and oaks in the swale, mahoganies and live oaks in the yards, ficus hedges along the property lines. Forty years later those trees are full size, and the problems are consistent from Ramblewood and Maplewood to Cypress Run, Eagle Trace, Turtle Run and Heron Bay. Black olives drop tannin that stains driveways and pool decks. Oak roots lift sidewalks. Ficus hedges have grown into trees and are losing leaves to whitefly.

Our job here is mostly maintenance done right: structural pruning on trees that were planted too close to the house, canopy raising over driveways, hedge reduction, and removals when a tree has outgrown its spot. The city's appearance code is strict and the HOAs are stricter, so we prune to the standard rather than hacking trees back.

Tree services we provide in Coral Springs

• Tree trimming & pruning - black olives, oaks and mahoganies thinned and raised so they stop staining driveways and scraping roofs, pruned to the city landscape standard.
• Tree removal - takedowns on zero-lot-line and HOA lots where the tree sits between two houses, with the free residential permit handled first.
• Stump grinding - stumps ground below grade and backfilled so the replacement tree the city expects within 180 days can go in the same spot.
• Palm trimming - queen, royal and sabal palms cleaned on a schedule that keeps the HOA happy without the over-trimming that weakens them.
• Storm & emergency service - downed black olives and split oaks cleared after summer storms, with priority for trees on houses.
• Lot & land clearing - overgrown lots and hedge lines cleared, with specimen trees flagged before work starts.

Coral Springs neighborhoods and the trees in them

The older sections, Ramblewood, Maplewood, Shadow Wood and the original Coral Springs Country Club lots, date from the 1970s and have the biggest trees in the city. Black olives planted as street trees are now sixty feet tall with shallow, spreading roots, and many were topped badly after Hurricane Wilma in 2005 and have regrown with weak attachments. Those need thinning and weight reduction, not another topping.

Cypress Run, Eagle Trace and Turtle Run were built in the 1980s and 1990s on larger lots with live oaks, mahoganies and ficus hedges. The hedges are the most common call: they were planted as privacy screens and have become thirty-foot trees with roots in the sewer line and whitefly in the canopy. We reduce them hard, treat or remove them, and replace with something the city will accept.

Heron Bay, Wyndham Lakes and the north end toward Parkland are 2000-era builds with HOA-managed common areas and smaller individual lots. Trees there are younger but often planted too close to the foundation. Early structural pruning saves a removal ten years from now.

Tree removal permits in Coral Springs

Coral Springs requires a tree removal permit before taking out any canopy tree or palm, and for single-family and duplex properties the permit is free through the Community Development Department's Landscaping Division. Multi-family and commercial properties go through the Building Division instead. Specimen and historic trees need a council plan permit and are replaced at appraised value. Nuisance species are exempt: Norfolk Island pine, schefflera, melaleuca, Brazilian pepper, Australian pine and both Ficus benjamina and Ficus nitida. After a permitted removal the city expects an appropriate replacement within 180 days, and removing a protected tree without a permit starts at a $250 fine. We pull the permit and schedule the replacement with you. Our Broward tree permit guide covers what applies countywide.

Storm season inland

Coral Springs is far enough from the coast to miss the storm surge but not the wind, and the city's black olives and ficus were among the worst casualties in Wilma. The failure pattern is the same every time: dense, never-thinned canopies act like sails, shallow roots in wet lawn soil give way, and the tree goes over onto the roof or the street. Thinning in spring, removing dead wood, and taking down trees that are already leaning or hollow is what keeps the roof on. After a storm we clear trees off structures first, then driveways, then everything else, and we cut debris to the size the city's contractors will pick up.