Tree Care in Norwood, MA

If you're looking at the trees around your Norwood home and feeling uneasy, there's a good reason. Most of the problems we see here trace back to decisions made decades ago when these neighborhoods were built. Builders in the 1960s and 70s often chose fast-growing trees for quick shade and curb appeal, planting species like silver maple and Norway maple that are now mature and showing their weaknesses. Silver maples have notoriously weak wood and aggressive surface roots that can damage foundations and walkways. Norway maples, while hardy, create such dense shade that nothing grows beneath them and they outcompete our native oaks and sugar maples. The challenge is that you can't see inside a tree from the outside. A tree can look perfectly healthy for years while decay is spreading inside the trunk, a problem that often only becomes visible during our next major storm.