speach less!

[Tom10]

Agree with comments that a lower pollard may of been better but for them all to be the same height they couldnt of done - some would of just been stems and looked even worse (I appreciate they dont all have to be the same height but then every tom dick and harry would say that the row of trees looked odd )

 

Firstly - why do them now - they looked manageable to start with

 

Secondly - a crown reduction would of made them look 20 times better.

 

Thirdly - someones going to be up them every few years taking the epicormic off, making them look just as bad every time.

 

Not terrible work on the tree's but a very bad spec.

[scotspine1]

pisspoor tree management

[DrewB]

I will bring the 200 next time I go out on the razz on Cheltenham then.

 

Last time, we free climbed every tree on Pittville lawn and nearly got arrested

 

Hey dean, nearly arrested for free climbing a tree????

[Pedroski]

Dunno what you're all upset about - in these times of economic hardship, we can't have local councils paying people to sweep up leaves. And just look at that "before" picture - far too many leaves on the pavement. Someone might trip over one.

[Mark Bolam]

Yes, they look terrible, but they did in pic 1 as well.

[Rupe]

Yes, they look terrible, but they did in pic 1 as well.

 

Do you mean the streetview pic? or the first of Craigs two pictures?

[Mark Bolam]

Sorry, I meant the first of Craigs pics, missed the streetview. Wondered what the fuss was about!

 

Having seen it now, I can see exactly where you are coming from.

 

Shocking.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Hey dean, nearly arrested for free climbing a tree????

 

No Drew, it was the traffic lights in the town centre

[Le Sanglier]

These are street trees, limes that have been put there in the anticipation of a regular hiding, high pollard, low pollard call it what you like they needed trimming, pruning or reducing, because they were getting too big for their environment. "Light formative prune" really won't cut it on these, plus it is as easy to do this as mucking around taking off a few feet with a silky, they look a bit rubbish now but by the end of summer they will have thrown out stacks of growth. "oh but it will have to been done again in a few years!" well yeah so what? that's part of our our job

Imho many people are blind to the fact that treating limes, willows, poplars etc in the same way as walnuts, oaks, and beech is like a Vet treating dogs and cows the same. Oaks and Poplars for example are very different, to reduce them both to a similar spec is daft.

Don't want a war, just saying.

[Mark Bolam]

Nowt wrong with pollards, but these look like whoever specced the job couldn't make his mind up.