Tree CareA thoughtful approach to every tree.

Tree care is the routine pruning, inspection, and planning that keeps the trees on your property healthy, safe, and well shaped.

Good tree care starts with understanding what a tree needs—and how it fits into the life of your property.

Common requests

  • Routine tree maintenance
  • Yearly tree check-ups
  • Care for young or newly planted trees
  • A plan for several trees on one property
Request Service Call (870) 340-2074 Text us

Serving Jonesboro and Northeast Arkansas (NEA), Memphis, Little Rock, Bentonville, and surrounding areasISA Board Certified Master Arborist®

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

The Magnolia approach

The right work. For the right reason.

A tree is a living system. We consider its growth, surroundings, and condition before recommending work.

Structural pruning

Guide developing branches with future form and strength in mind.

Professional Pruning

Clearance pruning

Consider the space between trees, buildings, pathways, and everyday life.

Professional Pruning

Deadwood management

Evaluate dead branches and the people or property beneath them.

Professional Pruning

Young-tree training

Make measured choices early, while branches and pruning wounds are smaller.

Professional Pruning

Tree health observations

Look beyond a single symptom to the canopy, trunk, root zone, and site.

Tree Health Assessments

Maintenance planning

Set practical priorities and a care plan that can evolve with your trees.

Tree Risk & Consulting

Tree removal

Consider removal when a tree no longer fits the site, its condition, or the management plan.

Tree Removal

Recommendations may be informed by AIM, our system of baselines, measurements, and records kept over time. How AIM works

Good pruning ≠ just cutting branches

See beyond the cut.

Most people never see what separates professional tree care from a quick job. These are the details that decide how a tree grows—and how long it lives.

Pruning cutsWhere a cut is made matters as much as which branch.

Flush cut: removes the collarStub: can’t close over✕ Common mistake
  • Flush cuts remove the branch collar—the tissue that helps a tree seal off a wound.
  • Stubs are left to die back, inviting decay into the trunk.
Cut just outside the collarBranch bark ridgeBranch collar stays intact✓ Proper practice
  • Cut just outside the branch collar and branch bark ridge.
  • Remove larger limbs in three cuts so bark doesn’t tear.
  • Trees don’t “heal”—they wall off wounds and grow woundwood over them. Wound paint is generally unnecessary.

Topping vs. reductionTopping isn’t a size fix. Reduction is.

Topping: stubs decay; weak sprouts regrow fast✕ Common mistake
  • Topping cuts main stems to stubs at an arbitrary height.
  • It triggers dense, weakly attached sprouts and decay—often making a tree more hazardous, not less.
Reduction: cut back to a strong lateral branchOriginal size✓ Proper practice
  • Reduction shortens a stem back to a lateral branch large enough to take over (industry guidance: at least one-third the diameter of the stem removed).
  • Fewer, well-placed cuts keep the tree’s natural form.

General education based on widely published arboricultural practice. The right approach for a specific tree depends on its species, condition, and site.

Educational exampleYoung tree training

Small cuts now. A stronger tree later.

A few careful cuts while a tree is young set up its structure for decades. Drag to compare a young tree before and after its first structural pruning.

BeforeCompeting leaders, a crossing branchEducational illustration — Competing leaders, a crossing branch.2Crossing branch1Two competing leaders3Broken branch213
AfterOne leader, conflicts removedEducational illustration — One leader, conflicts removed.2Crossing branch removed1Rival reduced: one central leader3Broken branch removed at the collar213
  1. Before: Two competing leadersAfter: Rival reduced: one central leader
  2. Before: Crossing branchAfter: Crossing branch removed
  3. Before: Broken branchAfter: Broken branch removed at the collar
Drag the handle—or use arrow keys—to compare. Educational example, not a Magnolia project. Results vary by tree, site, condition, and management approach.

How pricing works

Agreed in writing before work begins.

Every tree and every site is different, so we don’t post prices. We look at the trees, talk through what you want, and put the scope and price in writing. Work begins only after you’ve agreed to it.

  1. 01
    We look and listen

    Your trees, your site, and what you’d like to change.

  2. 02
    A written scope and price

    Which trees, what work, and what it costs.

  3. 03
    Work begins when you agree

    Nothing starts until the scope and price are settled.

We map your trees in ArborNote and email you a clear work order on every job. See how transparent tree care works

A little more clarity

Common questions.

Ask about your tree
Does every tree need pruning?

No. Pruning should have a defined purpose. The appropriate work depends on the tree, its condition, and the surrounding space.

Can we plan care in stages?

A site visit can help separate immediate concerns from longer-term maintenance and monitoring.

Where do I start?

Share what you have noticed and what you would like to change. We can help identify the next appropriate step.

Continue exploring

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

Tree Planting

Explore service
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

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

Professional Pruning

Explore service

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.

Request Service Call (870) 340-2074 Text us

Have photos or a video of the tree? Text them to (870) 340-2074.

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