Consulting arborists providing tree assessments, inventory, appraisals, and recommendations

Healthy Trees Start Here

Passionate about the intersection of people and trees

Unlike many tree-related companies, we do not remove or prune trees. Rather, we serve as an advocate and advisor for you and your trees.

How we're different

Our Services

  • Tree Health Assessments

  • Tree risk assessments

  • Tree inventories

  • Tree care plans

  • Tree ordinance review and recommendations

  • Tree appraisals

  • Tree preservation plans

    • Pre-construction
    • During construction
    • Post-construction

  • Consulting for landscape tree farms and other horticultural crop production operations

  • Construction administration for tree installation and care

  • Installation and maintenance specification review

  • General horticultural consultation

  • AirSpade Services

What is an Airspade?

A specific tool used to remove soil from around objects with compressed air. Air is expelled from the tube at Mach 2 – twice the speed of sound – in a way that excavates roots and underground utilities without damaging them. More on the AirSpade here.

AirSpade services we offer:
– Root Collar Excavation (RCX)
– Vertical Mulching
– Radial Trenching
– Air Tilling
– Root Evaluation
– Trenching for Utilities & Irrigation around Mature Trees
– Utility Locating/Buried Utility Excavation

A History of Growth

Green Groves President and Owner, Matt Nielson, is an ISA-certified arborist (#SO-10516A) and holds the ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualification (TRAQ), and ISA Prescription Pruning Qualification (PPQ). He has a bachelors degree in Horticulture from Auburn University. For 12 years, he worked at what many consider to be the best tree nursery in the southern US in Athens, Georgia. During his tenure, he consulted on the design, installation, and maintenance of thousands of trees in partnership with project owners, landscape architects, and landscape contractors. Through this hands-on education, he developed his expertise in understanding why trees thrive and why they fail.

We work for you with a sole motivation to provide the best service with no incentive to sell tree services like fertilization, pruning, or removal. Our goal is to help you achieve the best results with your trees in your backyard, your city, your campus, or your development project.

Case Studies and Arbor Insights from the Grove

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miston1013
5/21/2025
Matt is extremely helpful and knowledgeable. He is also very respectful with his time and fees, suggesting multiple options. He has consulted us on preserving our large trees, performed air spading services, advised us on installing mulch rings, where to route brick pathways to avoid roots. I couldn't recommend him enough!
Lynn Ingram
3/05/2025
Matt stopped by and helped me understand my problem with my arborvitae trees. He is very professional and easy to work with.
Megan Clark
1/19/2024
Matt was so helpful! He came to our house after hours to assess some damage to our trees left by a different company. He was patient with any questions we had and clearly very knowledgeable. We are so thankful for his insight and won't be making any tree decisions in the future without scheduling a consultation with him first!
April Grayson
10/31/2021
Matt explained several issues in great detail that I could understand clearly. He laid out several options and helped me make good, educated decisions. No high pressure for anything, and he was by far the most knowledgeable person I spoke to about my tree. I highly recommend his services!
Monte Ochs
7/26/2021
Excellent professional and knowledgeable in all respects. Definitely recommend.
Banks Woodrick
5/26/2021
Matt was great to work with. He was excellent about listening to our needs and desires for our property and tailoring his plans to meet that. His communication and follow-through was always clear and prompt. It was clear that his only goal was to give us a product that we would love, which he did in spades.
John Carruth
5/26/2021
We worked with Matt Nielson for the landscape design at our historic home renovation in Holly Springs, MS. He helped us take a very raw area and convert it to a wonderful entry space with good variety screening towards the neighboring property and beautiful flowering plants and shrubs. He was great to work with, creative, responsive, eager to collaborate with two architect owners on hardscape and landscape layouts. He offered us a phased approach with different levels of service. In the end we used all his services from design through bidding, installation and final review. Along the way we learned a lot about native plants in our area and care for our trees and our other wonderful, landscaped areas. It was a real pleasure to work with Matt.
Andrew Betts
5/26/2021
Matt at Green Groves provided more tree and plant knowledge in the first phone call than the 2 other arborists I had initially talked with. His on-site assessment strategy is very thorough, and his engagement level and line of questioning proves his expertise as well as his desire to ensure sustainability and canopy health. I look forward to a long and “healthy” relationship with Green Groves!
Marti Ryan-Kinder
5/26/2021
Matt did a fantastic job evaluating my trees and gave a very thorough assessment of my options. He is extremely knowledgable and an effective communicator of his assessment so I can understand. I have mature trees all around my house so their health is very important. Thanks Matt for being awesome!Marti Kinder
R P
5/26/2021
Matt is extremely knowledgeable and helpful. He has very good ideas and will see the project is done well and on time. He also genuinely cares, listens to what the clients want and comes up with ways to make it happen. Finally, he follows up after the project is done to make sure the project is done to the client specifications and is working well.
Olivia Elam
5/26/2021
After making a thorough diagnostic evaluation of an old oak tree, Matt explained all options we had of trying to save the tree. Matt is totally professional in every aspect of his business from communication to overseeing work being done, and follow up visits.
Marti Ryan-Kinder
5/24/2021
Matt did a fantastic job evaluating my trees and gave a very thorough assessment of my options. He is extremely knowledgable and an effective communicator of his assessment so I can understand. I have mature trees all around my house so their health is very important. Thanks Matt for being awesome! Marti Kinder

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: I'm about to build or renovate my house. Will a construction project at my home kill the nearby trees?

A: Compaction of soil from equipment and foot traffic is the biggest killer of established trees during new construction and renovations to existing structures. Ripping or cutting of roots due to excavation is a close second. Both of these will yield a long, slow death for trees. Establishing tree protection zones for those trees worth saving before the first contractor sets foot on the property is essential. An arborist can help with a tree protection plan that will save you considerable time and money in the post-construction phase.

Q: Should I fertilize my tree?

A: The short answer is “not usually”. Most soils have adequate levels of nutrients to support tree growth. The only way to determine nutrient deficiencies is with a soil test. Fertilizer that is applied without a soil test is a waste of time and money. Implementing a Fertilization program as a solution for declining trees will not target the root cause of the problem.

Q: Someone told me to cut the limbs of a tree hanging over my house. Is that a good idea?

Possibly, but an informed decision is always the best decision. A consulting arborist can offer details to help you make an informed decision to minimize the risk associated with targets (like houses, cars, people, etc), and/or the risk of damaging the tree.

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Consulting arborist | ISA Certified Arborist #SO-10516A | ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualification (TRAQ) | ISA Prescription Pruning Qualification (PPQ)

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Over the last few years, many people have taught me so much about the vast world of native plants, Mississippi ecoregions, the intricacies of plant communities, and the fundamentals of ecology. Big thanks to John Kees, @campcreeknativeplants , Robert Ballard, Habitat Harry, Joel Gulledge, Marcus Davenport, Andy Bell, @whoismitch, @mississippiwoodlandnursery, @habitatharryms, and others who I've failed to mention. @_nathancaleb and I began chats a few months ago resulting in a partnership to grow and sell local ecotypes of our native plants to the Mid-South. Our focus will be production of plug trays (32 or 50 plants to a tray) of these local plants for turf conversion projects, plantings under mature trees, and sales to other nurseries, designers, landscape architects and landscape contractors. Nathan is a talented grower of fruit trees, vegetables, microgreens, and now, native grasses and forbs. This project would not be possible without Nathan--he is the linchpin. He is a thoughtful person who excels with people and plants. We have numerous partners collecting seeds of particular species and are grateful for their passionate interest in this project. We will see where the path leads but we will be darn sure to leave the world a better place and hopefully fill a niche for the Mid-South for years to come. Photo is of Chasmanthium sessiliflorum, a native shade-loving grass currently underrepresented in the nursery trade...which we aim to change.

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Contact Green Groves

(T) 706-534-4216
(E) matt@greengrovesllc.com