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 ...

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 ...

Olive orchards formerly inhabited some of the regions that became urban in California. A few orchard trees remained within urban gardens of the homes that encroached on them. Unfortunately, for those ...

Coppicing and pollarding are the most extreme of pruning techniques. They may also be among the oldest in some cultures. Yet, arborists are correct to condemn both as improper. Coppicing is the ...

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Just about any other arborist will say that pollarding and coppicing are wrong. These techniques ruin trees so that they can never develop into their natural form. Although restorative pruning after ...

Pollarding is a type of severe pruning that results in a dense growth of branches at the pruning site instead of its naturally shaped crown. Last fall, I decided to pollard a catalpa tree to re-create ...

Don’t look now folks, Louisville has become a tree city. No, I’m not talking about the Tree City USA designation bestowed upon some tree-centric communities by the National Arbor Day Foundation. I’m ...

On a recent trip to southern France I was fascinated by what some people might term "tree abuse." The French love to turn certain trees into sculpted forms by removing all new growth each year -- or ...

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