About Us
Qualified and professional arborists with a passion for creating beautiful outside spaces.
Our professional and reliable team have been maintaining high-quality gardens since 2014
Since leaving military service, our company founder and director Keith Hooke, retrained as an Arborist or as more commonly referred to “a tree surgeon”. With a love of trees and anything to do with working outside, Keith set-up Alchester Tree & Garden Services.
In a short space of time, the business has expanded and continues to grow with more and more customers kindly providing referrals. Specialising as a tree surgeon, some would say Keith is simply a big kid climbing trees but this specialist job requires real planning and structure.
Keith’s assembled team are not phased by any job, no matter how large. Whether they are delicately pruning overgrown trees or hedgerows, or having to remove trees completely due to dangers to the public, you can be assured that AT-GS have the expertise for the job.
Pruning of Trees, Hedges
Planting or Transplanting
Diagnosing Potential Growth Risks
Shaping of Trees, Hedges
General Garden Maintenance
Lawn, Hedge & Flowerbed Maintenance
Fencing
Keith Hooke, Arborist
The main difference between an Arborist and a tree surgeon is simple, education! Luckily, Keith is both qualified as an Arborist and experienced as a professional tree surgeon. An arborist can be thought of like a doctor, while a tree surgeon can be thought of as a medical surgeon. The arborist can accurately identify disease in a tree, by studying the symptoms being displayed, and provide recommendations for treatment.
Ecological systems and the various interactions within them are complex and widely varied depending on the environment; gardeners and forestry agencies cannot always throw a group of plants, such as trees, together and expect everyone to get along. Things don’t always work out that way, unfortunately. A fully qualified arborist will be able to tell you what trees will thrive in the conditions available and among existing plant and animal life — insects included. Of course, when examining the surroundings the arborist will also consider the soil type. All of these things are key to a healthy and thriving environment for concerned trees.