Real names. Verifiable credentials. Public records.
Most Florida tree-service websites are anonymous behind generic stock photos. Here's who actually works on your property — with the public records you can verify yourself.
Nikolay V. Kholyusev.
Nick runs every Florida Tree Pro job: scope, scheduling, on-site supervision, and the single point of contact between you and the work. Fifteen years in Southwest Florida on big-tree removal, dangerous takedowns, storm-damaged canopies, and palm specialty.
Project manager. Tree expert. Team leader. He's the person at every quote and on every crew check-in — no faceless office, no random subcontractor showing up at the door.
- ✓Big-tree removal — live oaks, royal palms, mature pines
- ✓Dangerous removals — leaning trees over structures, near power lines, hollow trunks
- ✓Hazardous-tree assessment — crack, lean, root, decay diagnosis before it falls
- ✓Hurricane response — triage and clean-up when conditions allow
- ✓On-site supervision — Nick personally reviews every photo bid and walks every job
John Butts.
For technical species assessment, structural evaluation, and arborist-grade analysis, we work with John Butts — a longtime Sarasota arborist and the owner of Siesta Key Landscape, a respected Southwest Florida landscape company.
John Butts
Decades on Southwest Florida trees — oaks, palms, mangroves, hurricane-stressed canopies. John reviews the tougher Florida Tree Pro jobs for species ID, structural assessment, and ANSI A300 pruning practice. When a tree call needs an arborist's eye before the chainsaw comes out, John is who looks at it.
We assemble the right team for your specific tree.
Most Florida tree-service companies pretend to be a single in-house team that handles every job. Reality is messier — a 6-foot stump grind needs different equipment than a 60-foot crane removal. We partner with the right specialist for the specific work, and we tell you who's on each job before anyone shows up.
Nikolay V. Kholyusev
Scope, scheduling, on-site supervision, communication.
John Butts
Species ID, structural assessment, ANSI A300 review on the tougher calls.
Vetted local crews
Climbing teams, bucket trucks, crane crews — assigned by job complexity.
Specialized contractors
Cut + treat + approved disposal protocols.
Don't take any of this on faith.
Every claim on this page can be independently verified. Below are the public records and public profiles to check.
- ✓ The reviews on this page — every single quote is a real five-star Google review, reproduced verbatim. See /reviews for the full set.
- ✓ The photos on this page — every photo is a real job, not stock photography. Same crew, same trucks, same chainsaws.
- ✓ Florida Tree Pro content — 40 species pages, 27 reference articles, 10 blog posts. All hand-written. All browsable.
- ✓ Insurance + COI documentation — shared with every quote, not after the work. Carrier and policy number verifiable directly with the carrier on request.
What customers say about Nikolay's crew.
Tons of verified five-star Google reviews. Reproduced verbatim — typos and capitalization preserved as written.
“I've used a LOT of landscapers and cut down a lot of trees. These guys came in and straight up GOT IT DONE over here. Old massive trees GONE. Brazilian Pepper GONE. Oak trees OUT. Garbage GONE. Everything looks AMAZING. I was blown away by how much work this team got done and how fast it all got done. Mind you its AUGUST right now. It's HOT - like CRAZY INFERNO hot. When Nikoli told me how what he was going to do I thought to myself this guy is going to die out here. But he did not die... he and his partner got more done in 5 hours than anybody has ever got done around here. I am super happy with the project and really recommend this team.”
That tiny figure in the canopy? That's Nick.
Roped into a massive Florida strangler fig (Ficus aurea) — one of the largest trees in our local canopy and a structurally complicated species to work on. Multi-trunk strangler figs require strict ANSI A300 pruning practice, careful rigging, and the kind of climbing judgment that comes from a decade on Florida trees.
- ✓Strangler figs reach 60+ feet with multi-trunk crowns
- ✓Aerial roots create rigging-system complexity
- ✓Native Florida species — work must respect protected status where applicable
Same property. Same angle. Real work.
Three recent jobs, photographed before and after from the same spot. No staged photography, no swapped backgrounds — just real removals on real properties in Southwest Florida.
Real jobs. Real crew. Real Florida trees.
Photos from recent removals and trim jobs run by Nikolay's crew. No stock photography, no AI compositing.
Services on the menu.
The work Nick's crew does most often across Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte, and Lee counties. Click any card for detail.
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Photo bid → arborist review → written quote → work done. Same team on every job, named in writing before anyone shows up.