Tree surgeons in Marazion and the villages around Mount's Bay

The town runs along the shore of Mount's Bay, and everything on the seaward side of the main street takes the south easterlies straight off the water. Trees there are few and tough: evergreen oaks, sycamores, tamarisk and escallonia pruned by the wind into low, dense shapes, with the occasional Monterey pine or cypress in the garden of one of the older houses on the Green or along the road to Penzance. Behind the street the town climbs the hill to the church and the older houses, and the gardens there are sheltered enough for bigger trees and the usual reductions, dead wooding and occasional removals. The town centre is a conservation area and the bigger trees are checked against Cornwall Council's map before quoting.

Behind the beach is Marazion Marsh, the largest reed bed in Cornwall and an RSPB reserve, and the ground around it, at Long Rock, Red River and along the old railway, is wet, low and grown with willow, alder and poplar. These trees hang over the coast road, the cycle path and the houses at Long Rock, and they fail in wind because the ground gives way rather than because the wood breaks. The marsh itself is protected, and work along its edge is done from the land side and timed for the birds.

East of the town the coast rises to Perranuthnoe and Prussia Cove and the land behind climbs to Goldsithney, Rosudgeon and Germoe. The valleys running down to the sea are sheltered and wooded, with sycamore, ash, oak and willow along the streams and the mature gardens of the villages in them, and the plateau above is farmland with the usual shelter belts and Cornish hedges. Dead ash in the valleys, storm damage across the lanes, big sycamores over cottages and hedge work for the farms make up most of the calls, and Goldsithney's estate planting from the seventies is at the stage where it needs thinning out.

Inland the parish of Ludgvan climbs from the marsh to the moors at Castle-an-Dinas, and the villages of Crowlas, Ludgvan and Nancledra sit among small farms, hedge banks and the belts of trees around the old houses. It is a short run from here into Penzance, so Marazion and Penzance jobs often share a day, and the crane and lorry come down for the bigger ones.

Marazion is an hour from Carnon Downs and we are straightforward about that in the quote, grouping work with Penzance, St Ives and Hayle to make the day pay. The free tree health check covers TR17, and for the bigger garden trees and the shelter belts on the plateau it is worth a visit before the winter.