Protect your property. Strengthen your trees. Invest in a landscape that lasts.
Be Proactive in Your Property's Health
A failing tree can bring down a power line, crush a roof, or ruin a landscape you’ve spent years building. Unpruned trees grow weak branch structures. Dense canopies catch wind like sails in a storm. Young trees develop poor form that can’t be fixed later. And a tree in the wrong place or in the wrong condition becomes a liability your family and your property can’t afford.
You shouldn’t have to guess what your trees need. You shouldn’t have to wonder if the people climbing them know what they’re doing.
Why Taylor's Way
We’ve been caring for trees in north central Illinois for over 50 years. Our ISA Certified Arborists prune, cable, brace, and remove to ANSI A300 standards — the industry benchmark for tree care. We don’t just cut branches. We read trees, assess risk, and protect the investment standing in your yard.
Getting Started is Easier than you think
Three steps. No guesswork. No commitment before you’re ready.
Meet Your Arborists
An ISA-certified arborist walks your property tells your exactly what your trees need.
Enjoy Your Yard
Expert work completed on schedule. Your trees are protected. Enjoy the shade, or watch your kids swing from a healthy tree.
Our Tree & Shrub Services
Mature Tree Pruning
Pruning mature trees removes dead, dying, and structurally compromised branches — protecting your property and extending the life of your trees. Research shows that proper thinning (density reduction through selective removal of living branches) significantly reduces wind resistance and storm damage.
Thinning is only appropriate when a crown is genuinely too dense, and that call should be made by a trained eye. Our arborists evaluate each tree to balance plant health, property safety, and your goals — concentrating work on the outer canopy while preserving interior structure.
Young Tree Pruning
The most overlooked service in tree care. Young trees in full sun often develop competing leaders, poor branch spacing, and weak attachment points that fail under their own weight years later. Structural pruning while a tree is young sets it up for a strong, safe, beautiful future.
Our arborists prune to maintain the natural, open-grown form of each species — removing branches to establish proper scaffold limb spacing as the tree matures.
Specialty Pruning
Formal pruning styles including pollarding, espalier, and topiary. We also prune fruit-bearing trees — apple, pear, cherry, citrus, and others — to improve production, and provide selective removal of large branches overhanging homes, driveways, and other areas of concern.
Shrub Pruning (Not Shearing)
There’s a difference — and most landscapes suffer because the two get confused. Shearing only clips new growth, forcing an artificial shape and allowing the plant to grow larger every year until it outgrows its space. Proper pruning removes older growth alongside new shoots, maintaining the plant’s natural habit and long-term health.
Shearing has its place in formal hedges and geometric gardens. For individual plants, pruning wins every time — better appearance, better health, better longevity.
Tree Removal
When a tree is dead, declining, hazardous, or in the wrong place, removal is the right call — and it needs to be done right. Our crews are trained in aerial lift operation, advanced rigging, and controlled felling. We protect your property, your family, and everything around the tree while it comes down.
Tree Cabling & Bracing
Cables and brace rods provide supplemental support to trees with weak branches, multiple stems, or compromised attachment points — reducing the risk of failure. Our cables are high-tensile steel, hand-terminated by our arborists per ANSI A300 standards. Brace rods are installed through weak unions that are too small to cable.
Every support system should be evaluated by a certified arborist to ensure the right materials and the right installation. That’s what we do.
Without a certified arborist:
Storm-damaged trees that take out power lines, fences, and rooftops
Improper cuts that weaken trees and invite disease
Young trees trained into forms that will fail in 10 years
Sheared shrubs that slowly outgrow your landscape
Liability when something goes wrong
With Taylor's Way:
Stronger, healthier trees that increase your property value
A safer property for your family and neighbors
ANSI A300-compliant work you can trust
A landscape that looks better every year, not worse
Peace of mind backed by 50+ years of local experience
Find Your Area
Search the list below or use the interactive map to locate your area. Still unsure if your area qualifies for service? Give us a call!
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Bradford, ILBradford, IL
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Dixon, ILDixon, IL
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Dunlap, ILDunlap, IL
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Granville, ILGranville, IL
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Hennepin, ILHennepin, IL
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Henry, ILHenry, IL
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Kewanee, ILKewanee, IL
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Lacon, ILLacon, IL
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La Moille, ILLa Moille, IL
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La Salle, ILLa Salle, IL
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Mendota, ILMendota, IL
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Oglesby, ILOglesby, IL
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Peoria, ILPeoria, IL
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Princeton, ILPrinceton, IL
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Sheffield, ILSheffield, IL
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Spring Valley, ILSpring Valley, IL
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Tiskilwa, ILTiskilwa, IL
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Utica, ILUtica, IL
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Walnut, ILWalnut, IL
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Washington, ILWashington, IL
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Wyanet, ILWyanet, IL
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Let's Get Started
Your trees are too valuable — and the risks too real — to leave in the hands of anyone less than certified. Let’s talk about what your landscape needs.