Late-winter pruning by a certified Green Maestro contractor. List your plants, see your price, book in a few minutes.
Pick the plants you want pruned and book them today, or have a Green Maestro contractor map your whole yard and prune every plant in its season, on a simple plan.
Lifting a conifer’s low branches, pruning a fruit tree and renewing an overgrown rhododendron are different jobs. We price and do each one its own way.
Rhododendrons, camellias, laurels, pieris, azaleas, hydrangeas, boxwood.
Japanese maples, dogwoods, magnolias, crabapples, small flowering cherries.
Apples, pears, plums, cherries, figs.
Laurel, arborvitae, boxwood, privet, photinia.
Douglas fir, cedar, spruce, pine — lower branches only.
Every job ends neat.
Our contractors work from the ground, with pole pruners, and from tripod orchard ladders, the safe setup for garden pruning. Every cut is made at 14 ft or lower. They stay 10 ft away from power lines, as the safety rules require of anyone who isn’t a certified line-clearance crew.
Each plant is priced by its size and the kind of pruning it needs. Small jobs have a job minimum, which covers setup, travel and a few plants. If it applies, it shows as its own line in your price.
| What | Size | Standard | Heavy / specialty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shrub · Small | under 3 ft | – | – |
| Shrub · Medium | 3–6 ft | – | – |
| Shrub · Large | 6–10 ft | – | – |
| Shrub · Extra large | 10–15 ft | – | – |
| Tree · Small | up to 10 ft | – | – |
| Tree · Medium | 10–15 ft | – | – |
| Tree · Large | 15–20 ft (cuts to 14 ft) | – | – |
| Conifer limb-up | raise to 8 ft | – | — |
| Conifer limb-up | raise to 12 ft | – | — |
| Hedge trim | up to 6 ft tall | – | – |
| Hedge trim | 6–10 ft tall | – | – |
| Hedge trim | 10–14 ft tall | – | – |
Add each plant, and your price updates as you go. Book and pay online in a few minutes.
Every option ends with a fixed price before any work starts.
For when you know what you have and what you want done.
Pick the type, size and service. Use a door (7 ft) or yourself as a size guide.
Your list totals as you go, with optional haul-away.
Send your list with a photo of each plant. We confirm from photos and an aerial view before booking.
Send photos and your address. We price every plant from the photos and an aerial view of your property.
One photo per plant, with a person or doorway in the frame for scale.
We check size and access from your photos and an aerial view of your property.
We email your itemized price. If something needs a closer look, we’ll say so.
A Green Maestro contractor maps every plant in your yard and builds your year-round pruning plan. Best for most gardens.
Type, size and what it needs, with a photo, pinned on a map of your yard.
Each plant scheduled for the right season, grouped into a few visits a year.
Book the first visit and the Pruning Map fee is credited in full.
Pruning is cutting living tissue, so every cut should have a reason.
No flush cuts and no stubs, so wounds close properly.
For trees, no more than about 25% of the live canopy in a growing season, the professional pruning standard.
Disinfected between fruit trees to avoid spreading canker and blight.
We time each cut to the plant: apples and pears in winter, cherries and plums in dry summer weather, and rhododendrons right after they bloom.
For trees, no more than about a quarter of the live canopy in a season — the professional pruning standard. Shrubs can take more: renewal pruning removes about a third of the oldest stems, and some overgrown rhododendrons and laurels can be cut back hard.
We can still raise its lower branches or clean up broken limbs we can reach safely from the ground or a ladder, up to 14 ft. Work higher in the tree needs a climbing arborist, and we’ll say so up front.
We bundle them for your yard-waste pickup at no charge, or you can add haul-away and we take everything with us.
For your Pruning Map visit, ideally yes, so you can walk the yard with your contractor. For pruning visits, we just need access to the yard.
Build your list online, or send photos for a free quote.