Magnolia Tree Care · Northeast Arkansas (NEA) & the Mid-South

Thoughtful Tree Care.
Rooted in Science.

Professional tree care, plant health care, pruning, and tree risk consulting for Northeast Arkansas (NEA), Memphis, Little Rock, Bentonville, and surrounding areas.

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Call or text (870) 340-2074. We reply to every request the same day.

Led by an ISA Board Certified Master Arborist®

Led by co-founder Dillon Corson

  • Board Certified Master Arborist®Certification #SO-10775B
  • Tree Risk Assessment QualifiedInternational Society of Arboriculture
  • Certified Treecare Safety ProfessionalTree Care Industry Association
Meet our founders Find Dillon in ISA’s Find an Arborist directory

Who we serve

Residential Tree CareFor homeowners, and the trees around your home. Commercial Tree CareFor property managers, HOAs, apartment communities, and campuses. Municipal Tree CareFor cities, towns, and counties: streets, parks, and public grounds. New Development Tree CareFor developers and new communities, from planting day to maturity.

What we do

Good care begins
with understanding.

Every tree has a history. Every landscape has a context. We start there—and help you choose what comes next.

Illustration: a mature shade tree and a young staked tree with a mulch ring, with an arborist nearby

Tree Care

Thoughtful maintenance for stronger structure, healthier growth, and a landscape that lasts.

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Illustration: an arborist planting a young magnolia in a wide, shallow hole, with the root flare at grade and a mulch ring

Tree Planting

Trees chosen for your site and planted at the right depth, with a watering plan to see them through.

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Illustration: a leafy tree with its root zone opened up to show a mulch ring, soil layers, roots, and a soil probe Our specialty

Plant Health Care

Look beyond the leaves. Understand the soil, roots, and conditions shaping your tree’s health.

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Illustration: a well-shaped tree with fresh pruning cuts circled at the branch collars and a pole pruner

Professional Pruning

Every cut has a purpose. Careful decisions for structure, clearance, and future growth.

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Illustration: an arborist assessing a leaning tree with a large cavity near a house

Tree Risk & Consulting

A considered look at tree concerns, surrounding targets, and practical management options.

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Illustration: a struggling tree with a thin, yellowing crown, dead branches, and fungus at the base

Tree Health Assessments

Connect visible symptoms with the whole tree and site before deciding on a response.

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Illustration: a dead, split, leaning tree with a hanging broken limb near a house

Tree Removal

When removal is appropriate, begin with a clear plan that considers the surrounding property.

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Illustration: the same tree reduced to a snag, with nest cavities, a woodpecker, and an owl

Wildlife Habitat Trees

Turn a hazardous tree that must come down into a lower-risk wildlife snag, inspected every year.

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AIM: Arbor Intelligence & Monitoring

Tree care that keeps a record.

A documented baseline for your trees, re-checked the same way over time, so every recommendation rests on evidence and you can see whether past work helped.

  1. Baselinefor every AIM property
  2. Investigatewhen the evidence calls for it
  3. Validatedid the work help?
How AIM works

Transparent tree care

Know what you’re paying for. See that it’s done.

We map and inventory your trees in ArborNote, build a plan from it, and email you a clear work order on every job. You get before-and-after photos, and a history that grows with your trees.

  • Every tree mapped
  • Work order by email, every job
  • Before & after photos
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Illustration: an arborist kneeling at the root flare of a large shade tree
Every recommendation starts with the whole tree.

How we think through a tree problem

Care built around the tree,
not a sales quota.

We don’t arrive with a work order already in mind. Each visit follows the same careful sequence, so recommendations come from evidence—and sometimes the right answer is to wait and watch.

  1. 01

    Observe

    What changed, where on the tree, and since when?

  2. 02

    Site & history

    Construction, grading, irrigation, weather, and past work.

  3. 03

    Soil & root zone

    Compaction, drainage, root flare, and disturbance.

  4. 04

    Canopy & structure

    Growth, dieback, and branch architecture.

  5. 05

    Pests & disease

    Signs identified in context—never assumed.

  6. 06

    Recommendation

    The right work for this tree—or none at all.

Start with a tree health assessment

Learn to see your trees

What your trees can’t tell you.

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One connected system

Soil, roots, trunk, and canopy work as one. Explore it layer by layer.

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Read the symptoms

What yellow leaves, dieback, or mushrooms at the base can, and can’t, tell you.

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Good care vs. mistakes

See the difference between proper pruning and mulching and the common shortcuts.

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Where we work

Rooted in Arkansas.
Serving the Mid‑South.

Based in Northeast Arkansas (NEA), we care for trees across the region and beyond.

  • Northeast Arkansas (NEA) Jonesboro and the surrounding region
  • Memphis area Memphis and nearby communities
  • Central Arkansas (Little Rock) Little Rock and the central region
  • Northwest Arkansas (Bentonville) Bentonville and Northwest Arkansas

…and surrounding areas. Not sure if we reach you? Text us or send a request.

Why trees matter

Trees quietly pay you back.

See the research, by property type
  • 7.2%

    average reduction in U.S. residential energy use from trees, in a 2017 USDA Forest Service estimate.

  • $8,870

    added to home sale prices by street trees, on average, in a 2010 study of Portland, Oregon home sales.

  • Cooler blocks

    Summer daytime air cooled most where tree canopy passed about 40%, in a 2019 study.

  • Calmer streets

    Greener surroundings have been associated with fewer reported crimes in studies from 2001 and 2012.

The people behind Magnolia

Meet our founders.

Magnolia Tree Care was founded by Dillon Corson and Morgan Carter—two people who believe trees deserve patience, curiosity, and honest advice.

Portrait of Morgan Carter, co-founder of Magnolia Tree Care

Co-founder

Morgan Carter

  • Pursuing ISA Arborist Certification

Morgan Carter co-founded Magnolia Tree Care alongside Dillon Corson, bringing a genuine love of the outdoors and a real curiosity about how trees live, grow, and respond to the places we build around them.

Our story & credentials

Knowledge Center

A little knowledge.
A healthier landscape.

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Let’s start with a conversation

Your trees have a story.
We’re here to listen.

Tell us what you’re noticing. We’ll help you understand it—and decide what, if anything, should happen next. We reply to every request the same day.

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  • Jonesboro and Northeast Arkansas (NEA), Memphis, Little Rock, Bentonville, and surrounding areas
  • Licensed, bonded & insured