Tree Care in Santa Margarita, CA

If you're in Santa Margarita, you're likely looking at trees that are about 45 years old, planted when your home was built in the early 1980s. That means the fast-growing choices from that era, like Blue Gum Eucalyptus and Monterey Pine, are now mature and showing their problems. Eucalyptus has shallow roots and drops heavy limbs, while Monterey Pines are prone to disease and failure in our wind events. Most tree issues we see today started as a planting decision decades ago, putting the wrong tree in the wrong place for instant shade. Your established Coast Live Oaks and Valley Oaks are the real assets, but they need a different care strategy than your lawn. The daily lawn sprinkler cycle is one of the worst things for them, encouraging weak, shallow roots when they need deep, infrequent water to survive our droughts.