Tree Service in Holly Springs, GA

Most Tree Service calls in Holly Springs come from homes that didn't exist 30 years ago. The town was incorporated in 1906 and had just 687 residents in 1980. With I-575 running through it, it grew to 16,213 by 2020 and an estimated 20,261 in 2025. Tradition says the name comes from a stand of holly trees near a spring at the original town site. Elite Tree Service Marietta works on Holly Springs properties ranging from established yards near the old town center to subdivisions where the builder left the trees at the lot edges.

City trees and your trees

The city's Public Works Department lists tree trimming and right-of-way maintenance among its services. A tree in the right-of-way along a city street may be the city's responsibility, not yours. If a street tree in front of your house is dead or hanging low over the road, call Holly Springs Public Works before paying anyone to cut it. For trees on your own lot, we handle the work.

Development and arborist inspections

For new development, Holly Springs' Land Development office includes an arborist inspection with the final grading checklist. For homeowners, that means trees in newer subdivisions were often reviewed during construction. It doesn't mean they came through construction undamaged. Root loss from grading and trenching shows up years later. Here's what we commonly see five to fifteen years after a house is built:

• oaks with dead tops on the side facing the house or driveway
• trees whose root flare disappeared under fill soil
• pines left in narrow strips that now sway and drop limbs in storms
• ornamental trees planted too close to the house, now rubbing gutters

Between two larger cities

Holly Springs is bordered by Canton to the north and Woodstock to the south, with Hickory Flat to the east and Sixes to the west. Tree rules change at city limits. Woodstock, for example, requires a permit for nearly every tree removal. Don't assume the rules that apply to a friend a few miles away also apply to you. Check with the City of Holly Springs at 770-345-5536 before a large removal.

Pruning young yard trees

Many Holly Springs yards were planted with red maples, Bradford-type pears, crape myrtles and young oaks when the houses were built. Ten to twenty years in, it's time for structural pruning: choosing one main leader, removing branches that cross or rub, and taking out narrow forks before they become weak, heavy unions. Ornamental pears in particular grow tight forks that tend to split in wind and ice, so the earlier they're corrected the better. Crape myrtles do best when thinned, not cut back to stubs each winter. A tree pruned properly while young needs far less work, and costs far less, later on.

Cherokee County conditions

The Georgia Forestry Commission has recorded emerald ash borer in Cherokee County since 2015. Pines on drier lots are prone to bark beetles in drought years. Holly Springs sits at about 1,109 feet, on rolling ground typical of the southern Cherokee County Piedmont, with red clay under thin topsoil. That clay compacts easily under machinery and recovers slowly, so when lawns are soft we lay mats or use smaller equipment.

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