pollarding

[bushman]

We pollard london planes every year at a place where old practices are used.every early spring tie into the stubs with a sulky cuting back to the big fist .they looked like nathans pics after pruning.they have been like that since the 60s.

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

no pollarding would mean no trees for many cities in the UK and Europe remember our little streets are very narrow compared to North American standards

pollarding and topping was used in europe as a means of feed for animals mainly sheep goats and cattle

also sorry to contradict you jamie but to my exsperience pollarding espesialy limes and horsechestnut does lead to the tree decaying..who cares just plant another when the tree decays to far it's all part of of tree manegment

 

[Grigory]

On my sight a pollarding It is good practice of the maintenance of trees. Pollarding enables to support trees of small height with a beautiful crone. For cities it is very good.
These photos I have made in small city Serpukhov nearby to Moscow.

 

[Grigory]

So these trees in the summer look

 

[Grigory]

Autumn

 

[Grigory]

Before pruning

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

Grigory why are the tree trunks painted white??

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by ROLLACOSTA
Grigory why are the tree trunks painted white??

my guesses, to reflect light>less sunscald, and to warn traffic.

Grigory why are those stubs let instead of going back to the knob?

Rolla, I think decay will not happen if cuts are made early enough and at nodes instead of internodal, and clipped back at the same location each time.

 

[Grigory]

to ROLLACOSTA

About, it is very old tradition. This white paint - lime. Earlier thought, that she(it) creates insecticide a barrier. Now so any more not considered, however tradition has remained. Almost all deciduous trees lengthways of roads, in all cities of Russia are painted white colour on one height.

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

looks to me that grigorys trees will become dieased due to the stubs left, where i have found most decay on pollarded trees is where the tree would have started to fork mostly on horsechestnut and lime ,yet planes seal very well

in my town we have some very old pollards poss 100 years old mostly planes ..not very keen on the paint but if it warns drivers for the trees sake good idea

 

[arboromega]

Re: Re: pollarding

Originally posted by Guy Meilleur
[And the point about "why not plant a smaller tree" is a good one.

That's why you see dwarf crepemyrtles on the market now.
Wonder if a growth regulator would work well on crepemyrtles? [/B]

Guy, i have used paclobutrazol on c.myrtle to regulate growth and need to wait for some results... next may should know.
i have seen some other aggressive growth species regulated by paclobutraozol have mixed results.
pollarding is a practice more abundant in europe than here in the US and i hear many arborists here refer to it as topping. i understood it began in europe as a way for non-landholding residents under a feudal lord to collect firewood every year. they could not cut down many trees so they would cut limbs back to a point every year and collect the wood for cooking fire and each year the same wood could regenerate without removing the tree or the local source for wood. i am not certain of my source on this as i read it many a year ago.
it is popular on crepe myrtles, but still ugly imo. and i have pollarded a number of so called dwarf myrtle cultivars that were not told they were supposed to be a dwarf.