Tree service in Cibolo, Texas

What I see in Cibolo yards

Cibolo Creek's corridor carries bigger bottomland hardwoods than the surrounding neighborhoods suggest. If your lot backs onto the creek you likely have more tree — and more risk — than your neighbors do.

The trees I get called about in Cibolo

The Cibolo Creek corridor carries bigger bottomland hardwoods than the surrounding subdivisions suggest — pecan, hackberry, sycamore. Away from the creek it's younger planted suburban stock on prairie clay. The creek corridor is what makes Cibolo different from the subdivisions around it. Along the water you get genuinely large bottomland hardwoods, and lots backing onto it carry more tree — and more risk — than the neighbours realize. Away from the creek it's young planted stock like the rest of the corridor.

How to tell these species apart, and what goes wrong with each one.

The ground underneath: Blackland Prairie

Deep black clay that swells when it's wet and shrinks hard when it's dry. Post oak, blackjack oak, cedar elm, American and winged elm, sugarberry, green ash and honey mesquite. That soil movement is constantly shearing fine roots, and it's behind more mystery decline than any disease.

Permits in Cibolo

I haven't read Cibolo's ordinance closely enough to summarize it here, and I'm not going to guess at a rule that could cost you a mitigation bill. Call the city's planning or development services department and ask two questions: what trunk diameter triggers a permit, and is there a protected species list.

I have verified the rules for Austin, Kyle, Buda and Dripping Springs — those are written up here, along with how to measure your trunk properly, which every one of these ordinances depends on.

Working on a Cibolo property

Suburban and easy except on the creek lots, where the bank and the soft ground limit equipment. Forty-eight minutes out. Forty-eight minutes out. Creek-side lots often mean carrying wood uphill from the back, which is the thing that moves a Cibolo quote more than the tree does.

Questions I get from Cibolo

Getting me out to Cibolo

Cibolo is about a 48-minute run for me. At that distance it works best batched with other work out that way, so give me a little notice if it isn’t urgent. Call or text me a photo with something in frame for scale and I can usually give you a number without driving out. Estimates are free either way.

One rule that applies everywhere, including here: don't prune oaks between February 1 and June 30. Here's why.