Tree Care in Matawan, NJ

If you're looking at the trees in your Matawan yard and feeling uneasy, there's a good reason. Many of the mature trees here were planted when these neighborhoods were built in the late 1960s, and the choices made then are causing problems now. Builders often used fast-growing species like silver maple and Bradford pear for quick shade and curb appeal. Silver maples have weak wood and aggressive surface roots that can damage foundations and sidewalks. Bradford pears are beautiful but have a fatal flaw: their branch structure is so poor they are almost guaranteed to split apart after 15 to 20 years. We see these predictable failures after our local storms, which average over 25 per year.