Elite Maintenance & Tree Service

About Elite Maintenance & Tree Service

The marine layer pushes up the Santa Ynez Valley from Gaviota most mornings, and by ten it has pulled back off Buellton and the valley oaks stand out sharp against dry gold hills. Elite Maintenance & Tree Service works up and down 246 — removals where an old oak has lost its center, trimming to lift canopies over driveways and pasture fence, pruning that carries a yard tree through the valley's long dry summer. The wind here comes straight up the river corridor in the afternoon, so a well-thinned crown is a practical matter rather than a cosmetic one. Winter storms bring limbs down across ranch lanes, and storm damage cleanup means the lane is open, the wood is gone and the ground is even again. There's something good about leaving a valley oak looking exactly like itself, just lighter on its feet.