Tree Care in Mount Vernon, NY

If you're looking at the trees in your Mount Vernon yard and feeling uneasy, there's a good reason. Many of the large trees here were planted when these neighborhoods were built in the 1940s and 50s. Builders often chose fast-growing species for quick shade and curb appeal, like silver maples and Bradford pears. Now, 70-80 years later, those trees are at full maturity and showing their weaknesses. Silver maples have notoriously weak wood and aggressive surface roots, while every Bradford pear is structurally guaranteed to split apart. The problem isn't that the trees are old; it's that they were the wrong choice from the start, planted in tight spaces where their mature size was never considered.