Tree Service in Mililani Town, HI

Mililani Town was planned from the start. Castle & Cooke began laying it out in 1958 on former plantation fields, and the first homes went on sale on June 23, 1968. Tree Service in Mililani Town reflects that history: tidy streets with city-planted trees, yards on a regular grid, an active community association, and a lot of trees that are now as old as the houses.

Street trees are the city's. A 2001 Kokua Line column in the Star-Bulletin explained that the city's Parks Department planted Mililani's street trees, including the giant crape myrtles on Lanikuhana Avenue, plus pink tecoma, monkeypod and royal poinciana, and that the city pruned them on a two-year cycle. The same column said city policy was to remove street trees only if they were dead, diseased, dying or damaged. The details may have changed since, but the basic split has not: trees in the right-of-way are the city's to manage, and the trees inside your property line are yours.

That means if a street tree is the problem, the right first call is to the city. If it is a tree in your yard, or one of your trees reaching over the sidewalk, we can help.

Gulch-edge lots. Mililani is bounded by Waikele and Kipapa gulches. Homes that back onto a gulch often have a strip of wild trees and brush below the fence that nobody tends. When a tree on that slope leans toward a house, the work gets harder: steep ground, limited access, and often uncertainty about whose land it is. We figure out the property line first, then plan the cut so pieces are lowered on rope rather than dropped into the gulch.

Palms and the beetle. The CRB Response program reports that coconut rhinoceros beetle reached south Mililani in 2018, and links that jump to people moving mulch and compost. If you have coconut palms, keep an eye on the new fronds for V-shaped notches, and be cautious about free mulch from unknown piles. On our jobs, palm debris leaves the property the same day unless you ask us to leave chips.

Who calls us. Census QuickFacts shows Mililani Town with an 81.2% owner-occupancy rate and 26.1% of residents 65 or older. Plenty of the original buyers, and their children, still live here. Typical requests are lowering a mango that has gotten too tall to pick, removing a tree whose roots are lifting a wall, cleaning a row of palms, or grinding the stump of a tree that came down years ago.

If your association requires approval for removals or replanting, we can put the scope in writing for the board. Call (808) 746-9674 to schedule. call (808) 746-9674