French philosopher Albert Camus wrote, “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
September is the ideal time to ask a tree surgeon to make a professional assessment of the trees on your property in order to maintain their beauty and utility.
Any pruning or reducing that is required can be safely carried out as the wounds will seal over quickly preventing disease. It is the beginning of the dormant season when trees in temperate and boreal zones face cold temperatures and frigid winds, and trees have to reduce themselves to their toughest parts—stems, trunks, branches, bark. Leaves must fall. Evergreens can hang on to their leaves through winter, because their foliage is coated in a wax that helps protect against cold, and their cells bear anti-freeze chemicals that ward off winter’s cold. However, dead wood and weak branches liable to fall in strong winds must be removed by professional tree surgeons before disaster strikes.
In the autumn tree surgeons can see the shape of the tree really well and carry out any necessary work more easily and quickly than when the tree is in its full summer foliage.
