Tree Care in Wheaton, MD

If you're looking at the trees in your Wheaton yard and feeling uneasy, there's a good reason. Most of our homes were built in the late 1950s, which means the trees planted for instant shade are now 65 to 70 years old and reaching the end of their natural lifespan. We see a lot of legacy issues from that era, especially with silver maples and Bradford pears. Builders loved them because they grew fast, but silver maple wood is brittle and its roots can heave sidewalks, while every mature Bradford pear is structurally guaranteed to split. The problem is, you often can't see the decay inside from the outside. A tree can look fine for years after internal rot has started, which is why we use tools like sounding with a mallet to listen for hollow spots before a storm does the inspection for us.