Greenwood Village Tree Care & Removal · Arapahoe County
Pruning, removal, stump grinding and ash treatment across Greenwood Village, from the Sundance Hills acreage to the Tech Center edge. Every tree on the property gets looked at before any of them gets a price.
No city subsidy, no cost-share and no permit requirement we could find — which means the decision on a private tree here is entirely yours to make well.
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Greenwood Village’s land development code sets species-diversity caps on new plantings. For a planting of sixty trees or more, no single species may exceed 25%. Smaller groups get more latitude, up to 80% for a planting of five to nineteen.
The same section sets spacing of twenty-five to forty feet depending on mature canopy size, and a minimum of three to three-and-a-half inch caliper for shade trees.
Read that as what it is: a municipality legislating against monoculture. Somebody in this city understood that a street planted entirely with one species is a street that loses all its shade in the same year.
Carrie Tomlinson of the Colorado State Forest Service described how the region got here: “Ash were, many times, planted as a replacement for elms in the landscape because of Dutch elm disease. Now we’re having to go through the same thing with the ash trees because we didn’t support a diversity of species to replace the elms.” Greenwood Village’s 25% cap is the answer to that sentence, written in advance.
Greenwood Village publishes exactly what it is doing about emerald ash borer on public land. The gap between that and what exists for homeowners is the whole point of this page.
The city states it has an estimated 1,100 ash trees on property it maintains, that staff monitor them for signs of infestation, and that it is treating every city-maintained ash at least ten inches in diameter and in good condition — 388 trees in total. That is a real, funded, sensible programme and it covers city land.
No homeowner subsidy. No cost-share. No rebate. We could not find a Greenwood Village tree-removal permit or a tree-contractor licensing requirement either, which cuts both ways: nothing stands between you and a decision, and nothing stands between you and a bad contractor. The city’s own advice to residents is the sensible part: “If you have ash trees, start planning… If you aren’t sure, contact a certified arborist.”
The city looks after the ash trees it owns, and every other ash in Greenwood Village belongs to whoever owns the ground under it. The city states it maintains an estimated 1,100 ash trees and is treating 388 of them — every city-maintained ash at least ten inches in diameter and in good condition. For an ash on private property there is no subsidy, no cost-share and no rebate, so the cost and the timing are both the owner’s call.
Nearly every complaint people have about tree companies comes down to the same thing: something happened that the homeowner never agreed to. These five exist so that cannot happen here.
Greenwood Village writes its residential zones by minimum lot acreage, from R-2.5 down to R-0.05. That range is why two Greenwood Village addresses can need completely different work.
Estate and semi-rural lots where the trees are a landscape rather than a feature. Sundance Hills homes were built between 1967 and 1995 on lots from a fifth of an acre to a full acre, which puts that tree stock at 30 to 55 years old. Work at this end is inventory and rotation: knowing what you have, what is declining, and sequencing removals so the property never looks stripped.
Greenwood Hills went up between 1990 and the mid-2000s with houses from 7,000 to over 9,200 square feet. Large homes, large hardscape, and trees planted close to structures that were young then and are not now. This is clearance-and-structure territory, and the cost of getting it wrong scales with the roof underneath.
Denver Tech Center density, commercial frontage and small-lot residential. Here the code’s own requirements bite: groves and belts of trees along public streets, in parking lots and within fifty feet of a structure, and the requirement that a landscape element which dies “shall be promptly replaced with a plant of the same or similar species and size.”
Greenwood Village’s emerald ash borer page is written in 2023 present tense — “In 2023, Greenwood Village is treating all ash trees on City maintained property…” — and its list of where the pest has spread stops at Thornton in 2022 and Littleton in 2023.
Since that page was written, EAB has been confirmed in Denver and in Aurora, both in 2025. Both are nearer to Greenwood Village than Littleton. A resident reading the city page today would come away with a picture of the threat that is roughly two years and two cities out of date.
We are not criticising anyone for that; municipal pages age. We are saying that if you are deciding what to do with an ash tree in Greenwood Village this autumn, the honest inputs are: the pest is now confirmed on two sides of you, the city is protecting its own 388 trees, and there is no programme coming for yours. The city’s advice still stands and it is good advice — if you have ash trees, start planning.
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“Derek… refused to try to upsell me on treatments I didn’t need but had been quoted as necessary by two other companies. He also was not afraid to let me know I could check with an independent source as to whether his assessment was correct compared to the others.”
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“They removed dead and diseased branches, trimmed along side yard and sidewalk, thinned out in spots and reduced branches overhanging the house. Tree shape is outstanding.”
— James E. · Verified Google Review
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“Ben, Richard, Jeff and Elijah were great. They all displayed professionalism and genuine care for protecting our plants. Work was high quality and clean up was fantastic.”
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All six — tree removal, pruning, stump grinding, trunk injections, pest and disease control, and lawn fertilization and weed control. One ISA Certified Arborist stands behind all of them, and a property that needs more than one gets a single written quote rather than six. On the bigger lots here that usually turns into a sequence rather than a single visit — what comes out this year, what gets pruned, and what is worth treating instead.
Not confirmed. The nearest confirmed detections are Littleton in June 2023 and, more recently, Denver and Aurora in 2025. The city’s own emerald ash borer page has not been updated since 2023 and still points only at the Littleton find, so a resident reading it today gets a picture that predates the two closer detections.
No. The city treats its own trees only. It states an estimated 1,100 ash trees on city-maintained property and that it is treating every city-maintained ash at least ten inches in diameter and in good condition — 388 trees. There is no homeowner subsidy or cost-share, so a private ash is entirely the owner’s decision.
We could not find a Greenwood Village tree-removal permit or a tree-contractor licensing requirement, so we are not going to tell you there is one. What the code does cover is new development and landscape plans: species-diversity caps, spacing, minimum caliper, preservation of existing trees during site modification, and prompt replacement of a landscape element that dies. If your property is in a covenanted community, check those rules too.
The city’s land development code caps a planting of sixty trees or more at 25% of any one species. Smaller groups get more latitude, up to 80%. The purpose is to stop one pest taking out a whole planting at once — the lesson of Dutch elm disease and of emerald ash borer, written into a municipal code. It is worth applying to your own yard even though nobody is making you.
With an inventory rather than a quote. On the acreage end of Greenwood Village — Sundance Hills was built between 1967 and 1995 on lots from a fifth of an acre to a full acre — the trees are 30 to 55 years old and the right approach is knowing what you have and sequencing the work so the property never looks stripped. That starts with someone walking it.
Check which district serves your address first — Greenwood Village is not served by a single provider and we could not verify the split. Where Denver Water applies, it is a Stage 1 drought with two assigned sprinkler days, and hand-watering or drip for trees and shrubs is allowed any day outside 10 AM to 6 PM. Spray irrigation stops at the end of September; hand-watering trees does not have to.
One ISA Certified Arborist behind all six, and one written quote if you need more than one of them.
Tree Removal · Tree Trimming & Pruning · Stump Grinding · Pest & Disease Control · Tree Injections · Lawn Fertilization & Weed Control
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An ISA Certified Arborist will identify every ash on the property, tell you which are worth protecting, and put a number on it in writing. Free, and with no obligation.
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