Tree Care in Del Mar, CA

If you're looking at the mature trees in your Del Mar yard, you're seeing the landscaping choices made when your home was built around 1971. Back then, builders often planted fast-growing species like Ficus or Eucalyptus for quick shade and curb appeal. The problem is, 55 years later, that Ficus has surface roots cracking your patio, and that Eucalyptus is dropping heavy limbs in our 6-4 storm events a year. These are classic 'wrong tree, wrong place' scenarios. Your native trees, like the Coast Live Oak and California Sycamore, are better adapted to our 14.5 inches of annual rainfall and very high drought risk. They don't need the daily lawn sprinkler cycle, which actually harms trees by encouraging shallow, weak roots.