Your local arborist
Marrickville's diverse blocks need an arborist who pays attention
Marrickville is a larger and more varied suburb than it might first appear. Head into the streets running between Marrickville Road and the Cooks River and you'll find a mix of housing — older Federation and interwar cottages on modest-sized lots, semi-detached houses, newer infill development, and some larger established blocks particularly toward the Enmore and Dulwich Hill edges of the suburb. The gardens reflect this variety. Some blocks have been gardened for eighty years and have substantial trees that predate the current owners by decades. Others are bare or newly landscaped. We work across all of these property types.
Access in Marrickville can be straightforward or genuinely difficult depending on the street. Some blocks back onto rear lanes — a real advantage when you need to bring equipment close to the work. Others have no rear access at all, with a narrow side passage as the only route from front to back. We've worked in these conditions a lot, and the approach doesn't change: assess the site properly, choose the right technique for the access available, and work carefully. We use rope rigging and sectional felling when the space demands it, and we don't rush jobs where the risk of damage to property is real.
Marrickville has a long history of community attachment to its street trees. The established street tree canopy — particularly along the older residential streets — is significant and contributes directly to the liveability of the area through shade and character. If you're dealing with a street tree that's affecting your property — overhanging power lines, roots lifting a footpath, branches over a roof — the process for dealing with it is different from a garden tree. Street trees are council assets and you'll need to engage Inner West Council directly for any work on them. We can help you understand what category your tree falls into.
We're based on the Northern Beaches, and we want to be straight with you about that. Marrickville is roughly 40 minutes from North Narrabeen. We travel to the Inner West because the work is worthwhile and we have regular customers here. We don't charge a travel fee on top of the job price. You get the same standard of work, the same insured, qualified arborist, and the same honest written quote as any of our local customers.
