Ned Patchett Tree Care & Consulting

About Ned Patchett Tree Care & Consulting

San Carlos runs uphill from the bay to the oak line, and the trees change the whole way — bay laurels and coast live oaks holding the slopes near Pulgas Ridge, tidy street canopies down on the flats. Ned Patchett Tree Care & Consulting prunes with the long view: what a cut asks of a tree this year, and what the tree will make of it in five. Summer fog spills over the ridge in the evening and the oaks drip it back into the ground, which is part of why a heavy-handed thinning is the wrong answer in this town. Trimming keeps clearance above roofs and driveways without hollowing a crown, and removal is what is left when a tree has become a hazard that pruning cannot solve. When a winter storm drops wood across a San Carlos yard, the job ends with the ground raked and the wood gone.