tree surgery
Healing damaged limbs
Tree surgery is the professional care and maintenance of trees, including pruning diseased or damaged limbs, treating infections, filling cavities, and removing hazardous branches.
The term applies medical language to arboriculture: The old oak needed tree surgery after the storm.
A practitioner is a tree surgeon.
- loppingCutting away branches
- arboristTree care specialist
- arboriculturalRelating to tree cultivation
- chain sawMotorized cutting tool
- bracingRefreshingly keen or stimulating
pruning · branch · cabling · coppicing · pollarding · cut · phytophthora · root rot · canker · Dutch elm disease · limbing · fungal infections · dendrology · crown · wound dressing · leaf spot · hazard assessment · storm damage
- landscapinglawn care, landscaping, lawn mowing, grading, gardening
- arboriculturepruning, espalier, pollarding, coppicing, topiary
- dangerous jobsfirefighting, bomb disposal, crab fishing, offshore drilling, oil rigs
- plant tradeflorist, nursery, flower shop, spice trade, garden center
tree surgerydeforestation
Large-scale woodland elimination
clear-cutting · tree felling · slash-and-burn · logging · timber harvesting
tree surgeryneglect
Failure to provide care
abandonment · rewilding · letting nature take its course · non-intervention
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