Pollarded oak tree

[Gazelle1]

We had to have an oak tree heavily pollarded last August following a large bough falling down. The tree surgeons left several twiggy branches with leaf buds which are now coming out in leaf. However, no new shoots have grown out of the branch stumps since the tree was pollarded. How long does it typically take an oak tree to grow new shoots? Will they come through during the summer perhaps? 

 

Thanks

[Khriss]

...is as long as a peice of string. Size of cuts , soil quality, rainfall and original health of tree. K

[Treeation]

Hopefully you might expect to see 0.5-1m new growth by end of summer if the tree has some energy left and wasn't in too bad a state when it was cut.

[Gazelle1]

Thanks both. Hope we'll see some new growth - it's looking very bare even with a few leaves! It's healthy (from what I can see) but does have a largish wound from the bough which fell down.