A Tree Referral Service for Greenville County

Straight answer on how this works: Greenville Tree Pros is a referral service, not a tree crew, and each request we receive goes to one independent Greenville-area tree company, which comes out, puts the price in writing, and does the job.

Nine jobs, done the way they should be

Crews take trees down — dead, dying, leaning, or simply in the wrong place — and section the big ones rather than felling them whole, because most Greenville lots don't have room for a 70-foot oak to land. They prune the keepers: crown thinning, deadwood, roofline clearance, structural cuts that keep an oak or a maple sound. Not topping; topping ruins trees. When a storm puts a tree on a house, that job goes to the front of the line. And once a tree is gone, they grind the stump below grade so you can sod over it — old stumps somebody else left behind included.

The other five are the ones people don't always know to ask for. Before anything is quoted, somebody can come out and just look: a tree inspection is the free visit that starts with whether the tree needs anything at all. When the trouble is one weak joint rather than a whole bad tree, cabling and bracing is the alternative to cutting it down. The pruning doesn't stop at head height either — bush and shrub trimming does the shrubs and hedges underneath, by the same rules. When a whole lot has to come back to bare ground, land clearing handles the overgrowth and everything standing in it together. And the wood has to go somewhere: the rounds and the chips are yours if you want them and hauled away if you don't, which is what the quote assumes.

That's the whole menu. Anything tangled in a power line belongs to Duke Energy; call them first and keep clear of it.

The trees over Greenville yards

Greenville yards are full of willow oaks, water oaks, and loblolly pines planted decades ago and now standing over rooflines. The red clay under them holds water through a wet winter and turns brick-hard in a drought, which is why big pines start leaning after a saturated season. Then there's the weather: severe summer lines from one direction, the inland remnants of hurricanes from the other. Helene, in September 2024, put thousands of trees across this area onto houses, cars, and lines in a single night. A lot of the tree work done the rest of the year is about not repeating that.

How an estimate goes

You call, or you send the estimate form with a photo if you have one. Someone comes out and looks at what actually decides the price — access for the truck, the tree's lean, what's underneath it, how much has to be roped down in pieces. You get a clear written number. It's free, it comes with no obligation, and nobody parks in your driveway until you say yes. Cost ranges for the common jobs are already published on this site, so you can sanity-check the figure before anyone arrives.

On the day, the tree company takes the tree down or prunes it, cleans up, and hauls the debris. If you want the firewood, it's yours. Most people don't, and that's fine.

Things we'll say that lose us work

• Plenty of scary-looking trees only need pruning. If yours doesn't need to come down, that's the answer you'll get.
• Most trees on private residential lots in Greenville County come down with no permit at all. The exceptions — rights-of-way, certain protected trees inside the city, HOA covenants — get flagged during the estimate, and the permit guide walks through each one.
• The strip between the sidewalk and the street is usually managed by whoever owns the road, not by you, however faithfully you mow it.
• Winter is the right time for most hardwood pruning, and crews are more available then. If a job can wait for the dormant season, we'll tell you.

Where the service covers

Greenville, and across the county line in every direction: Greer, Mauldin, Simpsonville, Taylors, Travelers Rest, and Easley, plus everything in between. Each of those towns has its own page because each has its own trees and its own rules.

Hours

Monday through Saturday, 7am to 7pm. If a storm puts a tree on a structure, get everyone out from under it, treat every wire as live, and then pick up the phone or fill in the form.