Aspen Tree & Landscape

About Aspen Tree & Landscape

Where Donkey Creek cuts its ravine down toward the harbor, the big-leaf maples Aspen Tree & Landscape prunes back all year drop their leaves in soggy piles most Novembers, and it's the occasional hard freeze afterward that makes Gig Harbor's back streets genuinely treacherous. This crew spends most of the year keeping branches off driveways and wires, but the one or two weeks most winters when a convergence-zone storm actually drops snow on this side of the Sound, the same trucks carry plow blades instead of chainsaws. A driveway shaded by conifers holds ice longer than an open one, a fact anyone living under this town's canopy learns quickly. Getting it scraped clear before the school-bus run means one less kid slipping at the top of a hill. It's plain, early work, finished in the dark half of a short winter morning.