Florida

An HOA board that’s never documented a tree inspection has no evidence it exercised reasonable care. That’s not a technicality — Florida courts have used exactly that standard to decide who’s liable when a tree causes damage. HOA-compliant tree trimming in Florida isn’t really about following a rulebook for its own sake. It’s about building

A tree standing near a sinkhole isn’t just a tree removal job. It’s a ground stability question wearing a tree removal question’s clothes. Sinkhole-adjacent tree removal in Florida means figuring out two separate things before a single cut is made: is the tree itself safe to remove, and is the ground underneath stable enough to

Search around online and you’ll find sites claiming you can’t cut down a sabal palm in Florida without special authorization because it’s the state tree. That’s not quite right, and believing it can leave a homeowner sitting on a genuinely dangerous, disease-riddled palm out of a misplaced sense that it’s off-limits. Here’s the straight answer:

Ask a mangrove trimming company what the job costs, and you’ll hear some version of “it depends.” That’s not a dodge — it’s genuinely true, and the reason is buried in Florida’s actual trimming law. Mangrove trimming services in Florida are priced around a real regulatory structure: how tall your mangroves are, how long your

Half the tree companies near Florida’s beaches have “Coastal” somewhere in their name. Almost none of them mention the Coastal Construction Control Line — a real DEP-managed boundary that can affect what you’re allowed to remove near the water. Coastal tree removal in Florida involves genuinely different soil, wind, and salt conditions than inland work,

Drive through any Florida neighborhood and you’ll see it: mulch piled up against the trunk like a little brown volcano. UF/IFAS Extension has been warning about this specific mistake for years, and it’s still the most common thing done wrong with tree mulching services in Florida — not because homeowners don’t care, but because most