Flower City Tree of Gates

Flower City Tree of Gates is a tree service in Gates, New York, serving the Greater Rochester area with an ISA Certified Arborist. The company handles tree removal, tree pruning, plant health care, stump grinding, emergency tree services, commercial tree services, and EAB detection. It also offers squirrel protection, repurposed wood, and tree repurposing, recycling urban trees into slabs, dyed mulch, firewood, and other wood products made from local trees cut down for reasons other than timber value. The business holds a rating of 4.90 from its customers.

Flower City Tree was formed in 2013 by Steve Scherdin in Kendall, New York, after years of part-time tree service work and firewood sales. Steve had previously spent 31 years at Kodak in the skilled trades as a pipe fitter, and he maintains a 10-acre Christmas tree farm at his home. His son, Andrew Scherdin, became his business partner in 2014. Andrew grew up running heavy equipment on the family farm and helping with tree service and firewood work, holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from St. John Fisher, and worked as an accountant in public and private practice before joining the company full time. He became a Certified Arborist in December 2014, became Tree Risk Assessment Qualified in November 2015, and earned the Certified Treecare Safety Professional designation in February 2017. The company has grown to serve thousands of residential clients.

On pruning work, Flower City Tree follows set guidelines: crews do not use climbing spikes, remove 20 percent or less from mature tree crowns, and do not top trees. An ISA Certified Arborist is on every crew. Standard tree removal includes removing all brush and wood from the premises. The company's plant health care approach covers fertilization and soil health care, with soil testing used to prescribe fertilizer blends by species, along with insect and disease management. Its team works in residential, commercial, and municipal arboriculture.

The business sits on Millstead Way, about half a mile from Greater Rochester International Airport and the Airport Fire Department, and roughly a third of a mile from Scottsville Road. The Genesee River is about seven-tenths of a mile away, and Black Creek and the Black Creek Waterway Access are each about 1.2 miles from the location.

Flower City Tree's 4.90 rating reflects a positive response from the customers who have reviewed it, and its second-generation family ownership and certified arborist credentials anchor its tree care work in Gates and the wider Rochester area.