Apollo Beach is built on canals off Tampa Bay, and that shapes everything about the tree work. Salt in the soil, wind straight off the water, and storm surge that has reached well inland more than once in recent years.
Palms dominate here for good reason: they tolerate the conditions. Most of what we do is palm maintenance and post-storm work.
Salt tolerance decides what survives
On the canal lots, salt intrusion in the soil and salt spray in the air kill anything that is not suited to it. Sabal palms, buttonwood and sea grape do fine. Queen palms and most hardwoods struggle within a few hundred feet of open water. A tree in decline out here is more often in the wrong place than sick, and replacing it beats treating it.
After surge
Salt water over a root zone does damage that shows up weeks later, not the next morning. Following a surge event, trees that look untouched can decline through the following season. If a tree in your yard has thinned out since the last storm, that is worth a look before it becomes a hazard.
Canal access
A lot of Apollo Beach back yards run to a seawall with no way in but through the house side or a narrow gate. Those are hand-carried and rigged jobs, and debris goes out the way we came in rather than into the canal.
Where we work in Apollo Beach
We cover Apollo Beach and the surrounding neighborhoods, including Symphony Isles, MiraBay, Andalucia, Golf and Sea Village, Bahia Beach and Covina Key.
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