These pictures were taken as a reminder to check credentials and that there are many landscape “professionals” that don’t know how to correctly prune trees (and possibly don’t care)  In these cases people have probably paid a good amount of money and had nothing done but have their property permanently damaged and in some cases significantly.  The first four pictures show the horrible practice of topping with the second tree having the obsolete painting of the cuts.  The next four were at the same business which I hope didn’t pay someone for the damage that was to all of their trees: massive stubs, nicks from the chainsaw, flush-cuts, torn bark and seemingly random removal of branches.  The last two show another business whose trees had large stubs left and “lion’s tailed” branches on all of their trees.
