This is the way they pollard the limes - in Glasgow

[Bundle 2]

" Doesn't look natural but is it right to really talk about "natural" "

 

I think we talk about natural...as in nature.

If left to their own devices a tree will grow and exhibit whats termed as "habit "

They go to great lengths to maintain an upright form with maximum exposure to light and in competition with others...and with the minimum of wasted resources( energy )

Axiom of Uniform stress and "self-optimisation" ensures its successful design in nature....yeah, we can say natural as far as I 'm concerned.....in that we can see " unnatural "......±

[Stephen Blair]

if i was going to be honest, i love pollards because it is usually easier.

When i worked for a big company and was on an hourly rate, we were sent off with a list, a van and a chipper. My job was to climb. so the more time i spent up trees the less dragging and chipping i had to do. The boys on the ground never went near there saws because i would climb about like a monkey. excellent.

Its not till you are the boss with all the hassle and pressure on your shoulders that it becomes pound signs. Also when you price a domestic job for a nice thin or some crown restoration work and you pass a week later and guess what. Pollard.

you can have all the morals in the world about tree management. But when bills need paid, if it isnt going to kill it, why not!

[Jason James Gairn]

This was in Cannes.

[atree]

probably going over old ground here but..

pollarding was trditionally carried out at the hgeight of summer to feed livestock when there was less nutrient in grass. We then thought what a cool way to control growth. problem is 1st time you do it, it checks root dev. but studies were carried in London on plane trees and clay soils- after 2nd or 3rd time root systems accellorated their growth and then theres a problem with buildings etc.

If you enter into a pollard regime and you stop then decay sets in in those pollard points, it could turn into legal cases eg. plenty of cases in the past re failure of pollard points on L.A street trees.

Dont like em. but seen plenty and sometimes thet can be sculpure-esk.

 

thats interestig because there are a few streets in chch that have old pollarded planes and the council have stopped repollaring them because of cost,and they seem to be fine,no failures from what ive seen,the only other pollard's are in peoples gardens(only really willows) or butchured trees by cowboys