Wesley Chapel has gone from open pine flatwoods to one of the fastest-growing parts of the Tampa area in about twenty years, and a lot of the original tree cover is still standing between and behind the new subdivisions.
That produces a specific kind of job: mature native pines and cypress, left in place when the houses went up, now standing at the edge of somebody's back yard.
Leftover flatwoods pines
When a subdivision is cut into pine flatwoods, the trees left at the edges lose the shelter of the stand around them. A pine that spent forty years in the middle of a wood has a root plate and a trunk taper suited to being sheltered, and it does not cope well with sudden full exposure. Those edge trees are disproportionately the ones that come down in the first few storms after a build.
Cypress and wet ground
The cypress domes and wetland strips through Wesley Chapel are protected, and the ground around them will not carry equipment for much of the year. Work near a designated wetland is restricted regardless of who owns the land. We will tell you when a tree is inside one of those areas rather than take your money and find out later.
Pasco County rules
Wesley Chapel is Pasco County, not Hillsborough, and the tree removal rules are different. Most of the newer communities also have HOA landscape requirements including replacement plantings. We work to whichever applies.
Where we work in Wesley Chapel
We cover Wesley Chapel and the surrounding neighborhoods, including Meadow Pointe, Seven Oaks, New River, Watergrass, Union Park, Epperson, Country Walk and Quail Hollow.
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