First, you have different trees in Texas that have different growth patterns, and these patterns affect surrounding canopies.  If you have one tree that grows really fast, for instance, you’re going to have to deal with that canopy getting into the canopy areas of other trees around it.  Sure, you get good shade, and you get it fast (a necessary thing to have in this Austin Texas heat!), but you have to remember the number one thing trees have going for them: adaptation.  Trees are very adaptable, and they will change the shape of their canopies based on what is going on around them.

You’ve seen this in Austin landscapes, where one large tree has been removed, and the surrounding trees all grow out away from where the old tree was.  Now you have all these trees that are growing  away from a tree that is no longer there.

If you prepare properly, and hiring the right Austin tree shaping company is the beginning of that, you can shape your trees to prepare for the way surrounding trees are going to grow.

Faster tree growth is another aspect you have to prepare for in your tree shaping.  See, some trees grow faster than other slow growing Texas trees, and you have to take that into consideration.  Why?  One simple fact: fast tree growth means fast tree death.

Sad as it is to report, if you get fast growth and fast shade from a tree, that usually means that this tree is only going to live to be able 25 years old.  This is why you can drive down the street in some neighborhoods and just about every tree has been removed.  They were planted by builders interested in fast tree growth and fast shade, but suffered in the long-term.