Cathays Tree Services, Cardiff CF24

CATHAYS

Cathays is one of the few inner city areas in Cardiff where the front garden is actually worth talking about. The bay-fronted Victorian terraces along streets like Gelligaer Street and Colum Road often have front plots deep enough for a proper hedge line, sometimes with an ornamental tree behind it – cherry, rowan or silver birch. As tree specialists serving Cardiff we work in Cathays regularly, and the front garden is where we’re called most often.

The high turnover of tenants in this area has left many of those front hedges in a difficult state. Privet that was planted as a neat boundary has gone largely untouched for years and is now well over head height and spreading onto the pavement. Leylandii is another recurring issue – planted decades ago as a quick screen or boundary marker, frequently in too small a space, and now at a height and spread where it’s blocking light to ground-floor windows and putting pressure on boundary walls. These aren’t quick jobs, but they’re very manageable with the right approach.

Owner-occupiers who’ve bought in Cathays and are doing the place up properly often find the garden is the last thing on the list. By the time they get to it, there’s sometimes years of growth to deal with – not just hedges but self-seeded trees in borders, overgrown shrubs that have merged into a single mass, and paths that have been swallowed entirely. We can clear and reshape a neglected Cathays garden in a day in most cases, and we take all the waste away with us.

Tree and hedge services in Cathays CF24

We handle all aspects of tree and hedge work across CF24 and the surrounding streets:

• Tree felling and removal – front and rear garden trees, including larger specimens that need sectional felling
• Tree trimming and pruning – crown reduction and reshaping on garden trees of all sizes
• Tree shaping – bringing neglected or misshapen garden trees back into proportion
• Hedge removal – complete removal of established hedges, including grinding out root systems where the ground needs to be cleared
• Hedge trimming and pruning – all species, including Leylandii reduction and privet restoration cuts
• Hedge shaping – clean, tidy edges on front and boundary hedges
• Garden tree and hedge waste removal – full clearance of arisings, chippings and green waste after every job

Leylandii and large hedges in Cathays

Leylandii reduction is a job we do a lot in CF24. These trees grow at up to a metre a year and can reach 20 metres or more if left alone. By the time most people decide to act, they’re dealing with something that needs specialist equipment and careful planning, not just a pair of long-arm shears. We can reduce them to a manageable height, reshape them, or remove them entirely depending on what works best for your situation and the space available.

TPOs and Cathays conservation areas

Cathays sits close to Cathays Park and the civic quarter, and parts of CF24 fall within Cardiff’s defined conservation areas. A number of individual trees in the neighbourhood also carry Tree Preservation Orders. If you’re not sure whether a tree has any legal protection, it’s worth finding out before instructing anyone to carry out work on it – the consequences of getting that wrong can be expensive. We carry out basic checks as part of our site assessment and can point you towards the relevant guidance on the Cardiff Council tree protection pages if you need to go further.

Get a free quote for Cathays

We cover all of Cathays and the wider CF24 area. Call us on 07867 721327 or drop us a message through our contact page. Free visit, honest assessment, no obligation.