Round overs

[Froggy]

Do you guys consider round over proper pruning or just plain horrifying? Just curious.BB

 

[MasterBlaster]

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10602&highlight=topping+trees

 

[Menchhofer]

I get many of requests for round overs throughout the year mostly because people think the tree is "out of shape". Aside from the fact it is not an approved practice, by the time I explain to customers how long it will take me to round over a large tree at "x" amount of dollars per hour and inform them that by next year the tree will not remain "round" I usually have no problems selling proper pruning techniques.

So I would vote horrifying...

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by Froggy
Do you guys consider round over proper pruning or just plain horrifying? Just curious.BB

Proper for Bradford pears; good in fact.
Not good for ligustrum or waxmyrtle imo, unless you want to shear them forever, which is horrifyingly ugly to me. If there's a hedge of 100 and that's the only way to affordably maintain them, so be it.

We have a row of oaks under big powerlines that are rounded over and look quite good. No apparent health problems; small diameter cuts. Dropcrotching would not work on these, so it's valid for that situation. But it's a rare situation.

 

[monkeypuzzle]

There are a few lolli-pop trees here in Tally that were planted directly under power lines and I know who looli-popped those few. The trees are Q.virginiana and maybe 12''-14''dba. and 20'-25' spread.

Sure it looks kinda funny, and the landscape architect was asleep.Even the installer is to blame if you ask me. The important thing is the trees are still alive and not mulch in a flower bed.

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by monkeypuzzle
The important thing is the trees are still alive and not mulch in a flower bed.

Yeah, what he said!!!

Trees don't care if one person's sense of "dignity" deems a roundover to be "mutilation".
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Roundovers are totally wrong for most trees and most situations. But let's not get dogmatic about it; "Rules are too absolute for Mother Nature." AS, NTB

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

But if we are doing the installation we should look at cultivars that will fit the placement. Taking the right tree ideology as far as we can.

I've done roundovers and pollardy to maintain vollenteer trees in a number of locations.

 

[treehugger01]

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