One afternoon in the not too distant future I’m going to get out front and pollard my golden privets. It’s a good thing I garden with clothes on, pollarding can be painful. Pollarding started out in ...

In the lush landscapes of Western Norway, pollarded trees bridge the past with modern environmental concerns. In a recent study, researchers investigated what motivates farmers to continue this ...

I saw a group of trees that have been topped at the Garden, but I thought that topping trees was bad for them. — Angela Groskopf, Park Ridge You may be referring to the group of sycamore trees planted ...

It's common to see leaves change color before falling away as autumn turns to winter in temperate regions, but if you find barren trees with branches chopped all the way to the trunk, this is likely ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Pollarding is a tree pruning method in which the upper branches of a tree are cut back to the same points on a regular schedule, creating a framework of knobby growth points ...

A plant that's cut back close to ground level and results in the production of young, vigorous stems has been subject to a process called coppicing. If that process takes place further up the trunk, ...

February is the month to prune evergreen and deciduous trees. General rules to follow are to prune dead and diseased wood first followed by removal of other wood to shape or thin as necessary. Always ...

The Tump is the roundest, plumpest field on the farm. It forms the horizon line from the house, but when you mount it the views open both up and down the valley. There is a solitary ash that sits off ...

Over the winter Dublin City Council (DCC) is going to trial a more intensive pruning regime, known as pollarding, for around 250 trees throughout the capital. Pollarding is a method of pruning that ...

Much has been written about crape murder and the practice of “topping” trees. Unfortunately, at this time of year, the work of tree hackers, both professional and layman, is evident just about ...

Q: I've got two trees in my yard that were pruned years ago – before I bought – by someone who had no idea what they were doing. The result is large branches that look like "clubs." All new growth ...