Questions for French residents

[GarethM]

51 minutes ago, sime42 said:

Heaven forbid we ever have a catastrophe like the fire that occured at Notre Dame. We'd have to resort to rebuilding with French or Eastern European Oak.

 

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Nah, we could just buy a few Norwegian Christmas trees like the one in London.

 

Two birds one stone, every town and village in the land could donate it afterwards. Like they did with metal railings in WW2

[Mick Dempsey]

 I just googled chateau Vilandry, seems to be mostly pollarded limes. 

[5thelement]

 

 

 

The quality pollards that you see here are started young with a long term plan, rather than creating a UK style hat rack from a mature tree and calling it a pollard. 
There are many regional variations on style/form and species, some are created purely for Summer shade whilst enjoying an expresso.
I’ve seen some stunning avenues of Lime, Plane and even Horse chestnut. 
They tend to leave trees to do their own thing also, rather than sanitising everything because of risk, I see street trees everyday here that would be condemned in the UK, they will still be here when I am gone. 
A couple of examples of free standing fruit trees trained on wire,  and a new Fig planted last week, and a couple from down my street and around the village.

[organic guy]

2 hours ago, 5thelement said:

 

 

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The quality pollards that you see here are started young with a long term plan, rather than creating a UK style hat rack from a mature tree and calling it a pollard. 
There are many regional variations on style/form and species, some are created purely for Summer shade whilst enjoying an expresso.
I’ve seen some stunning avenues of Lime, Plane and even Horse chestnut. 
They tend to leave trees to do their own thing also, rather than sanitising everything because of risk, I see street trees everyday here that would be condemned in the UK, they will still be here when I am gone. 
A couple of examples of free standing fruit trees trained on wire,  and a new Fig planted last week, and a couple from down my street and around the village.

I can't really match your photos. A variety of pruning, interested by the 2nd photo which appears to show first pruning, how old can you start without killing the tree?

Napoleon cedar in Tours I think. Villandry gardens, 1100 limes plus others.

[Mick Dempsey]

That first pruning/topping is on plane trees, that won’t kill them. 
Just the start of the cycle.

[Mark Bolam]

That’s just it Mick, they don’t wait till they’re 100 footers like we do.

[Mick Dempsey]

Not sure there’s as much thought put into it over here as you think.

 

[sime42]

6 hours ago, 5thelement said:

 

 

 

The quality pollards that you see here are started young with a long term plan, rather than creating a UK style hat rack from a mature tree and calling it a pollard. 
There are many regional variations on style/form and species, some are created purely for Summer shade whilst enjoying an expresso.
I’ve seen some stunning avenues of Lime, Plane and even Horse chestnut. 
They tend to leave trees to do their own thing also, rather than sanitising everything because of risk, I see street trees everyday here that would be condemned in the UK, they will still be here when I am gone. 
A couple of examples of free standing fruit trees trained on wire,  and a new Fig planted last week, and a couple from down my street and around the village.

 

Some nice examples there. Interesting to see the steel bars in that hollow trunked Plane. Are they meant to be structural aids?

 

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

13 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Not sure there’s as much thought put into it over here as you think.

 

Speak for yourself.

[Stubby]

23 hours ago, organic guy said:

I can't really match your photos. A variety of pruning, interested by the 2nd photo which appears to show first pruning, how old can you start without killing the tree?

Napoleon cedar in Tours I think. Villandry gardens, 1100 limes plus others.

When I was a little boy ( 4 or 5 ) I remember my Granddad had 3 or 4 pear trees pleached along the boundary in his back garden . I thought at the time it was very lucky that they grew that way !