Leafy Tree Care

A customer who drops his own trees wrote in August 2026 that when one looks iffy, Leaf is the first call he makes. That is the work here: the dead 70-foot ash leaning over a new garage, the cluster of tall pines that has to be rigged and lowered piece by piece instead of felled. Leafy Tree Care is a family-owned operation based in Stoddard, run by the climber customers call Leaf. The work is tree removal, tree trimming, and shrub trimming or removal. Twenty-nine reviews since 2021 across Google, Angi and HomeAdvisor, and the specifics keep coming back to difficult trees. In April 2026 a customer with a dead 70-foot ash threatening a new garage said Leafy came in at the lowest price, left the smallest footprint on the property, was in and out in a day and cleaned up afterwards. In October 2025 another described a cluster of tall pines rigged and pulled down from around a garage, with dead branches trimmed off a third. A June 2026 customer called the climbing work technical and the prices fair; a March 2026 customer who has had trees removed through the 2020s called him an artist and said he is entertaining to watch. Reliability comes up as often as the climbing. Customers in April and August 2026 said he arrives exactly when he says he will and works straight through the day. A November 2025 customer with a stand of dying ash said he returns calls promptly, keeps appointments, and talks through which trees to take first on safety grounds. Cleanup gets a mention in nearly every account. The one qualified review is from November 2021: that customer rated the work very good but said the original plan and later additions were not always followed through. Settle the day's list before the crew starts — which trees come down, which get trimmed, and what happens to the brush and the wood. For a hazardous removal near a house, a garage or a power line, or for pruning that needs someone in the canopy rather than a bucket truck, this is a strong call. Confirm whether the price includes chipping and hauling, and put the day's list of trees in writing.