Serving Lutz · Pasco County
Holleywood Tree Service is headquartered right here in Lutz at 111 5th Ave SE. As a locally-owned, family-run tree company, we're just minutes from every Lutz neighborhood — Cheval, Van Dyke Farms, Willow Bend, Sunlake, Calusa Trace, Heritage Harbor, and Lake Fern. Fast response, fair pricing, and the same crew every visit.
Lutz properties are known for towering pines, mature laurel oaks, and grand live oaks — beautiful trees that need proper pruning to survive Florida summer storms. We handle everything from routine deadwooding on a single oak to full lot clearing for new construction.
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A recent Lutz call took our crew into Lake Fern (33549), where a storm-split leader was hanging over the driveway. We set rigging lines from the trunk, lowered every section by hand instead of dropping it, ground the stump below grade and raked the beds clean before we pulled out.
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“Five stars all the way for Holleywood Tree Service! We had a massive, hazardous oak tree hanging directly over our roof that needed to come down before storm season. James and his crew came to Lutz on very short notice for emergency storm preparation. They saf…”
“I am more than pleased. They were totally professional. And they did an awesome job! Thank you so much Holleywood. You are the only company I will ever use. You will be highly recommended to all my friends.”
“James Holley is absolutely wonderful he is always does a phenomenal job and the best prices in town! The oak tree that he cut away from the roof was definitely needed before storm season!”
Lutz is our home base — our shop, our trucks and our crews start every morning here, which is why Lutz gets the tightest scheduling window we offer anywhere in Tampa Bay. It is also one of the more demanding canopies we work in. The older sections around Lake Keystone, Sunset Lane and the Van Dyke corridor still hold mature live oak and slash pine that predate the subdivisions built around them, and those trees now share space with roofs, pool cages, septic fields and power drops that were never part of their original growing environment.
Much of Lutz sits on deep sand over a shallow water table, with lake frontage and wetland edges through Keystone, Cheval and the Sunset Lane corridor. Sand drains fast and holds roots poorly. After a multi-day soaking rain the soil loses grip exactly when the wind arrives, which is why Lutz sees whole-tree uprooting — root plate and all — where inland clay counties see limb failure instead. When we assess a Lutz tree we look at the ground as hard as the canopy: soil heaving on the windward side, a raised lip of turf at the root plate, or exposed roots on a lake bank all tell us the tree is already moving.
A lot of Lutz property is on septic and well rather than city utilities, and a drain field will not survive a loaded crane outrigger or a fully-laden chip truck. Before we bring equipment onto a Lutz lot we map the tank, field and well head and plan the pick from there — often rigging the tree out in sections over the house rather than driving to it. Older Lutz homes on acre-plus lots frequently have a side yard too narrow for a lift, so trunk sections come down on ropes and get carried out. It is slower, and it is the reason your turf and pavers survive the day.
Lutz sits in one of the most lightning-active corridors in the country, and afternoon convection through June to September does more cumulative damage here than named storms do. We keep a Lutz storm rotation: standing hazards get cleared first, then roof and driveway obstructions, then cleanup and hauling. Because the shop is in Lutz, our storm response time here is measured in minutes rather than hours, and we photograph every stage so insurance adjusters get clean documentation without you chasing us for it.
When we schedule what, based on Lutz soil, storm exposure and access conditions.
| Window | Focus | Why then |
|---|---|---|
| January – March | Structural pruning and removals | Cool, dry, and the best window for major oak work. Trees are least stressed, the ground is firm enough for equipment, and cuts close cleanly before the summer growth flush. |
| April – May | Storm-prep thinning and cabling | The pre-season window. End-weight reduction on live oaks, cabling co-dominant leaders, and clearing pines away from rooflines before the first line of summer storms. |
| June – September | Emergency response and palms | Lightning and squall damage season. This is also the correct window for palm trimming and seed pod removal — palms handle summer trimming far better than winter. |
| October – December | Post-season assessment and stump work | We walk properties for storm-stressed trees, hangers left in canopies, and hollowing laurel oaks, then catch up on stump grinding and restoration while the ground is dry. |
Lutz spans unincorporated Pasco and Hillsborough County, and tree removal rules differ on either side of the line — protected and grand trees generally require review before removal, while hazardous or dead trees are usually handled under a hazard provision. We tell you which side of the line you are on, what documentation the county will want, and we photograph the defects that support a hazard determination. Many Lutz subdivisions — Cheval, Lake Fern, Calusa Trace among them — also have HOA architectural review; we send certificates of insurance directly to the management company when it is requested.
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