Tree service in Temple City, California

Empire Tree Care serves Temple City, and the first question on a job is who owns the tree. The city defines street trees as trees planted between a street curb and sidewalk. It says it is responsible for planting, trimming and removing trees planted in the public right-of-way, and its Urban Forestry Program looks after over 6,000 city-owned street trees and prunes on a 4-year cycle. That strip in front of your house is the first place to look, so check where the trunk stands before you pick up the phone.

Trees on your own property are a separate matter. Trees on private property, in rear yards or in alleys are not eligible for city tree maintenance services, so the trimming and the removal are yours to arrange. That work lives on the tree trimming and pruning and tree removal pages, and residential tree service is the page for a home's trees in general. A city-owned tree is another story, because it cannot be trimmed or removed without an approved permit from the Parks and Recreation Department.

Temple City jobs run out of the base in Arcadia, and the 45 miles the owner will drive for a job puts the city well inside the range. A call sets the estimate visit, and after the work you look the job over with them and the invoice follows. The minimum is $500, and once a price is given it stays the price. When you call, say whether the trunk is on the strip, in the front yard or behind the house.

Along the commercial side, the city's About page names Las Tunas Drive and Rosemead Boulevard as its two major commercial arterials, plus a downtown district. If you manage a property on one of those streets, the commercial tree service page is the one to read. Yard trimmings have their own city rules under the Trash & Recycling program, so look there before you stack branches for pickup. A commercial site on either street can have trees on the city strip too, so the ownership question from the top of this page applies there as well.

What Empire Tree Care does in Temple City

• Tree trimming & pruning: Private-property trees are not eligible for city tree maintenance, so the trim falls to you
• Tree removal: Rear-yard and alley trees are not eligible for city tree maintenance, so removal falls to you
• Residential tree service: Trees in rear yards are not eligible for city tree maintenance, so the work at your house is yours
• Commercial tree service: Las Tunas Drive, Rosemead Boulevard and downtown are the city's commercial arterials
• All 35 services

Before you call, read how Empire Tree Care prices a tree service job.

Also near Temple City

Arcadia, San Gabriel, Rosemead, Pasadena, Monrovia, and the rest of the San Gabriel Valley.