Crown thinning verses Crown Reduction

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

or is that implicit in this post? or does it not apply to excurrent conifers

 

any tree can be reduced, keeping the form is the key, even lombardi poplars can be reduced in a way that maintains form.

 

A goood reduction merely takes a tree back to a state maybe three years prior, without altering form, and hence it continues to grow in its natural habit.

[Danavan]

Both opperations have their place in the world of arb.

 

It is dependant on the tree spp, growth patern, enviromental local & cliants needs.

 

Done properly & MANAGED corectly in the future are key points to keep in our minds & information passed to the cliant as to the end result WILL need future care & responcibilaty from them to the tree & all who live around it.

 

I tend toward the thin side of pruning & reductions I perform most of the time are mostly drop croch reductions.

 

After care is key with any pruning wrk imo.

 

An example of this is a copper beech that has suffered with Ganoderma for the past 12 yrs or so that a co I wrk with has been carrying out pruning opperations in this time, from 15% reductions, go backs to thin & futher reduce in later yrs with the last time I worked on her being a 50% reduction about 4 yrs ago. She is still standing & living & giving the cliants a few more yrs of enjoyment of a once magnificent tree.