Tree Trimming & Removal in Burbank

Burbank is mostly flat grid, and the trees that give trouble here are the ones planted along the parkways decades ago. Ficus and carob went in close to the sidewalk when they were small, and they are now big enough that the roots are lifting the concrete and the crowns are over the roofline of a single-story house.

That is the standard call: a full-grown tree sitting directly above a low roof, on a lot that was never sized for it.

Why local knowledge matters in Burbank

Valley heat is the second thing. Summers here are long and dry, and a tree carrying more canopy than its roots can supply shows it first as dead wood in the middle of the crown — which is exactly the material that ends up on a roof.

Then there is the foothill side. Streets running up toward the Verdugos carry the same clearance concerns as Glendale does: dead wood over the house, brush grown into the eaves, and somebody asking about it once a year. On the flat that is a tidiness question. Up there it is not.

• Flat valley grid with mature ficus and carob on the parkways, planted close to the sidewalk and now lifting it
• Valley heat and dry summers, which stress a tree that is carrying more canopy than its roots can supply
• Single-story post-war houses where a full-grown tree sits directly over the roofline
• Foothill streets on the Verdugo side that carry the same fire-clearance concerns as Glendale

Neighbourhoods we work in: Magnolia Park, Rancho, Toluca Woods, Burbank Hills, Chandler, Downtown Burbank.