South of the river is the core
The business is based and busiest south of the Swan, and that is where the coverage is densest. The country changes as you move across it, and so does the work.
River suburbs and the Melville corridor
Older gardens, established canopy and the strictest local controls in our patch.
- Booragoon tree lopping — City of Melville, significant tree register, banksia woodland remnants at Wireless Hill and big tuarts through the older streets.
Fremantle and the limestone coast
Salt wind, heritage streetscapes, limestone walls and no room to swing a chipper.
- Fremantle tree services — City of Fremantle, significant tree register, Norfolk Island pines and Moreton Bay figs, tight limestone lots.
- Cockburn tree work — City of Cockburn, Beeliar wetlands, tuart and banksia, older Hamilton Hill and Spearwood blocks.
The southern sand plain
Bassendean sand, 1990s and 2000s estates, and a great many lemon-scented gums planted too close to houses.
- Canning Vale tree lopping — City of Canning, estate streetscapes and maturing street trees.
- Gosnells tree services — City of Gosnells, Canning River flats and the foothills edge.
The foothills and the scarp
Clay over granite, jarrah and marri forest, steep driveways and a genuine annual bushfire obligation.
- Armadale tree services — City of Armadale, Darling Scarp, jarrah and marri, firebreak notices.
- Kalamunda tree work — Shire of Kalamunda, forest blocks, steep access, bushfire prone land.
The coastal corridor south
Newer estates, exposed sites, strong sea breeze and salt.
- Kwinana tree services — City of Kwinana, industrial strip, remnant tuart, hot easterlies.
- Baldivis tree lopping — City of Rockingham, former market gardens and pine country, young estate trees.
- Rockingham tree services — City of Rockingham, coastal limestone, foreshore Norfolk pines.
- Secret Harbour tree work — City of Rockingham, dune estates, heavy salt exposure.
- Mandurah and the Peel — City of Mandurah, estuary margins, tuart and paperbark, canal access.
North and east of the river
These are legacy areas from the older version of the site. Crews still travel to them; they are simply further out, and the quote reflects the travel.
- Nedlands tree services — City of Nedlands, river foreshore, mature established gardens.
- Innaloo tree work — City of Stirling, post-war housing stock, Herdsman flats nearby.
- Belmont tree services — City of Belmont, Swan foreshore flats and flooded gums, airport flight path.
- Midland tree lopping — City of Swan, Helena River alluvium, the hottest summers in the metro area.
Same services, different method
The service list does not change with the suburb: tree removal, lopping, pruning, stump grinding and stump removal. What changes is the ground under the machine, the species in the canopy, the access to the block and the council that has to be asked.
Call (08) 9516 2804 for a free onsite quote, or read the cost guide first so the number makes sense when it arrives.
Frequently asked questions
Why is the council the first question in Western Australia?
Because there is no statewide tree preservation order. Unlike the eastern states, WA has no blanket protection for trees on private land, so each local government sets its own rules and they differ sharply. Some Perth councils barely regulate a private tree; the City of Melville and the City of Fremantle both maintain significant tree registers with additional controls.
Are verge trees treated differently?
Always, and in every council. Street and verge trees are local government property throughout Western Australia regardless of how permissive that council is about private trees. You cannot prune or remove one yourself, and unauthorised work can attract a penalty. Apply to the council and they will assess it.
My suburb is not listed. Do you still cover it?
Probably. The pages here cover the areas we are asked about most, and crews work across the southern metropolitan area and beyond it. Call and ask rather than assuming. Travel time to the outer edges does show in the quote, and it is worth booking neighbouring properties together to spread it.
Do the bushfire rules affect my property?
Only in the bushfire prone areas, mainly along the Darling Scarp and its foothills — Kalamunda, the upper parts of Armadale and Gosnells, and pockets of bushland elsewhere. Those councils issue an annual firebreak and fuel hazard reduction notice, and dead standing timber, canopy separation from the roofline and litter control are the tree-related parts of it.