Lake country. From the moss draped oaks of Venetian Gardens on Lake Harris out to Fruitland Park, Lady Lake and the edge of The Villages, describe your tree job once and a local crew calls you back.
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Leesburg sits between two big lakes on the Harris Chain, and the trees act like it. Massive live oaks drip Spanish moss over the older streets between downtown and the water, laurel oaks planted decades ago are reaching the age where they shed limbs and hollow out, palms line the lakefront at Venetian Gardens, and camphors and pines fill in everywhere else. Out toward Fruitland Park and Lady Lake, oak canopies over retirement neighborhoods mean shade everybody loves and limbs somebody has to manage.
That is most of the work here: keeping big old oaks safe over roofs, driveways and screen rooms, taking out the laurel oaks that are past their lifespan before a storm does it the hard way, cleaning palms before hurricane season, and clearing what summer storms drop. Crews out of Leesburg run the whole triangle from the Villages down to Tavares every week.
Everything is quoted in person, but for planning: palm cleanups usually run $75 to $250 per palm, trimming a big live oak lands between $350 and $1,000, and removals run from a few hundred dollars for small trees to $2,000 to $4,500 and up for large oaks near structures. Stump grinding is commonly $100 to $400 per stump. Aging laurel oaks are the big ticket item around the lakes, they get hollow, they get dangerous, and the longer they stand the more the removal costs.
Screen rooms, birdcages and lanais change how a tree job gets done, good crews rig and lower limbs instead of dropping them. If your property backs onto water, mention it in the description so the crew brings the right equipment. And if you are calling for a parent or neighbor who lives here, include your own number, crews are used to coordinating with family.
Because they were the fast shade tree of choice fifty years ago and they live about fifty to sixty years. All over Lake County they are now hollowing, shedding limbs and failing in storms. If you have a big laurel oak over your roof, get it assessed, removal on your schedule is far cheaper than removal on the storm's schedule.
Before hurricane season is the big one, get canopies thinned and palms cleaned by late May. Live oaks can be pruned most of the year in Florida, and dead or hazardous limbs should come off whenever they are found.
Yes, it is routine here. Crews rig limbs and lower them piece by piece over screens and pool cages. Mention the screen room in your job description so the right equipment comes on the first trip.