Naturaliste Tree Care

09/03/2026

15/02/2026

End-of-year pruning at the Dunsborough Hotel site, followed by what we like to call a tree birthday.
Fresh cuts, microbial feed, compost, and mulch to help these Box Elders cope with the stress of construction.

Good planning now saves big problems later.

That’s how long-term tree care’s done.construction

12/01/2026

Bit of a technical one at Aravina Estate - a big Marri had come down over winter and was completely hung up in another tree, sitting right over a fragile (and very expensive) timber deck.
A crane would’ve been ideal, but with no access we had to climb it. Lewis got up there and set up a pretty serious rigging system - GRCS holding the fallen stem in place while the Porta wrap was used to lower each chunk safely off the end.
Every piece had to be controlled and lowered perfectly to avoid hitting the deck or the main stem it was hung up on. Big trees, awkward angles, plenty that could’ve gone wrong... but everything came down smooth with zero damage.
Sketchy job, tidy result. Happy days.

12/01/2026

Couple pics from last winter... the Avant finding out the hard way that bog holes aren’t always the way to go.
Bogged up to the axles — Twice.
Not everyday’s fun. Sometimes it’s just digging your machine out of a hole.

12/01/2026

Couple of quick clips from a job out in Witchcliffe a few weeks back.
First video is a big Marri we felled between two posts - tight little pocket but Lewis slotted it straight through no worries.
The next two clips are him up an old dead Jarrah that had fallen over and was leaning into the neighbouring Marri. We had to send a few heavy crown pieces down between two fences with basically no room for error.
Couple of perfect drops, no damage, no drama - just tidy, technical work. Always good watching a lead climber do their thing.

26/11/2025

One of our lead climbers, .ballard , up in a big Tassie Bluegum that had a limb tear out over a heritage-listed building
in Yallingup.
The tree dropped a heavy limb through a storm and was hanging awkwardly over the roof, every branch cleared without touching the old building.

Always good watching a jet climber do their thing

24/11/2025

Another habitat coronet from a few months back at
— this one on an small
peppermint that had died off.
We make coronet cuts to mimic the way branches
naturally snap and tear in the bush, leaving rough,
splintered edges that fungi, insects, and birds can
all make use of. It helps turn a dead or declining tree
into long-term habitat instead of just firewood

19/10/2025

Couple of big old Marri’s that had died off, instead of a complete removal we jumped up and gave them a proper coronet prune.

Coronet cuts mimic the way branches naturally break in the bush - rough, splintered and uneven - which helps fungi, insects and birds move in and make use of the tree long after it’s dead

Also had another play with the and carved 3 or 4 hollow in both trees stem and larger limbs. Giving birds and critters instant homes instead of waiting decades for natural hollows to form.

Perfect way to remove all dangerous amounts of weight and risk of failing limbs while keeping up habitat value.