Pollarding
Videos
Pollarding is a pruning system involving the removal of the upper branches of a tree, which promotes the growth of a dense head of foliage and branches. In ancient Rome, Propertius mentioned pollardin
Shortly after pollarding
Two years after the pollarding
A line of pollarded willows in Germany
Pollarding of plane trees on Mallorca, Spain
Tree topping
Videos
Tree topping is the practice of removing whole tops of trees or large branches and/or trunks from the tops of trees, leaving stubs or lateral branches that are too small to assume the role of a termin
This tree was topped to accommodate electrical and telephone wires.
A dead tree, topped
Weeping willow before topping and pruning
Same tree, after topping and pruning