Ongoing maintenance of a pollarded willow tree

[Twiglet03]

We recently had our willow tree pollarded. It has now started growing back at a pretty fast rate. The tree surgeons said to keep on top of it by cutting off any growth down the main trunk and only allowing new shoots at the ends of each trunk. My question is, how much I should be cutting off? I've removed shoots at the bottom of each trunk, but didn't want to take too much off the higher bits without a bit of advice!

 

Edited May 27, 2022 by Twiglet03

[Steve Bullman]

You're really going to struggle to keep on top of that. Standard practice is to just re-pollard, usually every 5 years.

[Stubby]

Just get it done  / do it once a year . It will always be the same every time you come to do it . Its an never ending cycle until one year,  in the distant future  its not .  That's willows for you .🙂