At BrightView their pruning objectives, community wide, are primarily focused on health and safety. They follow ISA and ANSI pruning standards with a combination of approved pruning practices depending on the species, and location. Structure pruning is focused on strong structure that coincides with the trees natural shape and growth patterns. Crown cleaning cleans out any dead wood over one foot in diameter that form the tree crown. Crown raising clears the canopy form homes, cars, pedestrians and other items that may obstruct with their canopy. Occasionally where needed they will also do some Crown reductions on specific limbs to reduce their end weight load or to clear an object.

Their annual scope of work focuses on the entire community alternating species based on growth rate and location each year. Not all trees grow at the same rate or require pruning every year, while others have a faster growth rate or are in locations that interact more frequent with the community and need pruning annually.

The more a tree is pruned the more stress it incurs and also the more it will respond with growth to replace what was removed both in the canopy and root system as well. Their overall goal is to slow the growth down on the community trees, so there will be less maintenance, while maintaining healthy safe trees.

This year BrightView focused on the following species throughout the community:

Acacia, African Sumac, Aleppo Pine, California Pepper, Camphor, Canary Island Date Palm, Carolina Cherry, Carrotwood, Cassia, Chinese Elm, Crape Myrtle, Chinese Pistache, Crape Myrtle, Eldarica Pine, Eucalyptus, Ficus Benjamina, Italian Stone Pine, Koelreuteria, Liquidambar, Loquat, Magnolia, Metrosideros, Myoporum, Oak, Olive, Pear, Pine, Pink Melaleuca, Podocarpus, Purple Leaf Plum, Queen Palm, Red Gum, Red Iron Bark & Red Gum, Rusty Leaf Fig, Silver Dollar Gum, Strawberry Tree, Sumac, Sycamore, Tipuana Tipu, Torrey Pine, Tristania, True Date Palm and Victorian Box.