Angus · Arbroath · Carnoustie · Forfar

Tree Surgery across Angus

Professional tree surgery services helping keep trees safe, healthy and looking their best. Serving Arbroath, Carnoustie, Forfar, Brechin, Kirriemuir, Montrose and the surrounding communities.

Tree Surgery · Angus

Local tree surgery you can rely on

Tree surgery covers everything from a light crown lift on a garden birch to the safe sectional dismantling of a large, failing conifer beside a house. We work for homeowners, landlords, farms and estates across Fife, Dundee, Angus and Perthshire, dealing with trees that have outgrown their space, become unsafe, or simply need shaping so more light reaches the garden. Every job is planned around access, the health of the tree and the safety of everything around it, from greenhouses and fences to overhead cables and neighbouring property in Scotland's older residential streets.

The coastal strip from Carnoustie up to Montrose is windswept and salt-exposed, and shelter planting takes a beating over winter. Inland towards Forfar, Kirriemuir and the mouths of the Angus glens the ground is more sheltered and fertile, with substantial mature hardwoods and long-established beech and hawthorn boundaries that need regular management to stay dense rather than gappy at the base.

Rural Angus properties usually have good access for machinery, which keeps costs down on larger jobs — but they also bring more overhead line proximity, livestock fencing and roadside safety to plan around. Conservation areas in Montrose, Brechin and Kirriemuir and protected trees on older properties mean we still check with Angus Council before any tree work that might be restricted.

We cover Arbroath, Carnoustie, Forfar, Brechin, Kirriemuir, Montrose and the villages in between, and you can read more about our wider work on our Angus page or the full tree surgery guide.

Tree Surgery carried out by LM Trees & Landscaping in Angus
  • Tree removalFull felling where there is space to drop the tree safely, or careful sectional dismantling with ropes and rigging in tight gardens where a straight fell is not an option.
  • Tree pruningTargeted removal of dead, diseased, crossing or storm-damaged limbs to improve the health and shape of the tree without stripping it back unnecessarily.
  • Crown reduction and thinningReducing the overall height and spread, or thinning the canopy, to bring light back into a garden and take weight off longer limbs.
  • Stump grindingGrinding the remaining stump below ground level so the area can be turfed, planted or paved rather than left with a trip hazard and regrowth.

Why Angus homeowners choose us

Tree work is the part of garden maintenance where getting it wrong is genuinely dangerous. We are fully insured, work to recognised safe working practices, and use proper climbing and rigging techniques rather than shortcuts. Just as importantly, we care about how the tree looks afterwards — a good reduction should look natural, not butchered, and should leave the tree in a healthier condition than we found it.

Typical Angus jobs: shelter belt and boundary tree maintenance on rural properties, long beech and hawthorn hedge reductions, and clearing neglected gardens back to usable lawn.

Landscaped Scottish garden with mature trees and stone paths

Your garden, considered

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