Bli Bli
Tree removal in Bli Bli
Tree pruning, stump grinding and storm damage work in Bli Bli, from the Maroochy River flats to the gardens beside the wetlands.
Tree work in Bli Bli
Named for the swamp oak
Council's town history records that Bli Bli is named after billai billai, which it gives as Aboriginal for swamp oak. Swamp oak is a casuarina that grows in wet, salty ground like the river flats here, and it drops dense, needle-like branchlets into gutters. Cut one down and it sends up suckers from its roots.
Council describes the Maroochy Wetlands Sanctuary, on the outer fringe of Bli Bli, as land inundated by seasonal freshwater floods and salty tides. Ground on the river flats can be waterlogged the same way, and trees there tend to grow shallow root plates that fail when the soil is saturated.
Council's page on the sanctuary calls the broad-leaved paperbark, with its pale, papery bark, the hero of its melaleuca forest. Where one grows in a garden near the wetlands, it sheds thick layers of bark and carries a heavy, spreading crown over wet, shallow roots.
Services in Bli Bli
Swamp oaks, paperbarks and river flats
Stump grinding
Swamp oak stumps ground out, with a return visit allowed for when the suckers come up.
Tree pruning
Paperbarks and casuarinas thinned and lifted off the roof so less bark and fewer branchlets end up in the gutters.
Storm damage
Trees that have gone over on the waterlogged flats, made safe and then cleared when the ground will carry a truck.
How it works
What happens after you get in touch
The council question is answered before the price, and nothing is booked until you have the quote in writing and have said yes to it.
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Tell us about the tree
The suburb, what the tree stands near and what you would like done with it.
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Someone comes to look
A tree contractor who covers your area sees the tree, the access and whatever is underneath it.
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The council position is checked
Lot size, how close the tree is to the house and the mapping on the block decide whether an application comes first.
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Quoted in writing
Scope, timber, stump and date set out on one page. Nothing is booked until you accept it.
Bli Bli questions
The wetlands and the old school grounds
Can trees along the river be trimmed back?
Garden trees can. Council lists wet eucalypt forest, melaleuca forest, casuarina woodland, mangroves and salt marsh in the Maroochy Wetlands Sanctuary, and mangroves are protected marine plants in Queensland. The sanctuary is also mapped as a Local Heritage Place, so its trees are council's to manage, and a job next door keeps branches, debris and machinery out of it.
Are the trees at the old school heritage listed?
They are part of the listing. The Original Bli Bli School Grounds are a Local Heritage Place in the planning scheme, with the heritage type recorded as building and trees, so pruning or removing one of those trees is a matter for council. Work on a block beside the grounds keeps machinery and cuts clear of their roots and canopy.
