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Tree guides for Lakeland homeowners

Plain-language answers to the questions we hear most: what removal costs here, whether you need a permit, how to get the trees ready for hurricane season, what to do about a beetle-hit pine, a lightning-struck tree, and a palm that's gone bronze.

Tree crew lowering a laurel oak trunk section on a rope beside a Lakeland home

Tree removal cost in Lakeland

2026 prices by size and species, crane and stump add-ons, and what moves the number.

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Live oak canopy with Spanish moss arching over a brick street in a historic Lakeland district

Do you need a permit in Lakeland?

The one-acre line, F.S. 163.045, the right-of-way, and the other Polk cities' rules.

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Arborist thinning and raising an oak canopy over a roofline ahead of hurricane season in central Florida

Hurricane tree prep in Polk County

What 2004, Irma, Ian and Milton taught us, which species survive, and the May checklist.

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Slash pine with red-brown needles from bark beetle attack standing among green pines in Polk County

Pine bark beetles: save or remove?

Ips, black turpentine and the needle-color rule for Polk's slash pines.

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Long spiral lightning scar running down the trunk of a pine tree in central Florida

Lightning-struck trees

Polk led the nation in strikes in 2025. What a strike does, and when a struck tree can stay.

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Dead palm with a collapsed, bronzed crown being taken down by a tree crew in central Florida

Lethal bronzing in Polk palms

The disease killing sabals and queens, how to spot it, and what to do for the neighbors.

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